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Poem interrupting a Poem

Posted by Wes Houp on August 4, 2021 0 Comments

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By Wesley Houp

Someone is yelling
at me because
I’m trying to write
a very loud lamentation.
Bullfrogishly loud.
It’s not an angry yell,
just persistent
until I break trance
and resume
the humanscape.

Yes, I will do laundry
and ignore the
forest saints for now.

Wes Houp

Wes Houp is a native of High Bridge, Kentucky. He currently lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he is a maintenance technician at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. You can stream his first album, "Person Place or String," on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LECfp0FNh4M97cu1Vesww

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