Short Redial Poems

I speed-dial her again: “Flatten the curve,
O muse - I’m dry from social distancing.”
“Abundance of caution”, she says. The nerve!
I press redial. “Please, help me write! Dance! Sing!”
Alas, my muse is self-isolating....

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Hello
Can you here me 

Are you there
You wrong me yet you silence me.
You spoke words that devoured my soul, now
Pieces of my heart lay out like shards of broken glass. 
I go to mend it, yet I stab myself continuously. 


Hello
Can you here me

I am here...
Forgive this wrong, forgive or forget 
Your sufferings, the malice ways in which the moon treated you. Forgive or forget. 

Hello 
Can you here me

......please redial your call again.........

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