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| Issue 20X: | 21 Nov. 2023 |
| Poem: | 168 words |
By Scott Ferry
sometimes i speak to myself as if i am a child
you don’t need to get so upset i say look! a rainbow over there! i say people don’t have the courage to be kind i say through murder and war, god is here i say god is not asleep, my dear boy, god is not asleep i say suffering is what we eat, love is what we birth i say weep all your hungers into the sky i say the stars will dance between the wounds i say laughing is how to make your body a diamond i say hold the heavens open for everyone i say see, you never were alone i say you don’t need to tremble i say there are rivers and elms in the light behind death i say home is all of these thorns and all of these songs i say home is a forgetting and a remembering i say home is a black and silver thread inside your tongue i say
Scott Ferry
helps our Veterans heal as an RN in the Seattle area. He attributes his writing skill to listening to rain fall upwards from the bottom of a fictional aquarium. His most recent book, each imaginary arrow, is now available from Impspired Press. Earlier this year, Meat for Tea Press published his collaboration with Lillian Necakov and Lauren Scharhag, Midnight Glossolalia. Upcoming early in 2024: his collaboration with California poet Daniel McGinn, Fill Me With Birds (Meat For Tea Press), and his book of prose poems, Sapphires on the Graves (Glass Lyre Press).
Links to Scott’s other books, including his first collection, The only thing that makes sense is to grow (Moon Tide Press, 2019), are available at his website: Ferrypoetry.com
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