Even Monsters Get Terrified by Edward Michael Supranowicz
Post Retirement Syndrome
Daniel Edward Moore
Who would have thought these days would find me,
hypersensitive, easy to caress, like a toothbrush
growing fainter by the minute in the vibrating palm
of its pink, scarred home, but at least I’m learning
a new dialect for pain, unlike the old one written
in the dark by a sleep technologist who spent his hours
conducting mortality’s ruinous snoring in that opera
of de-saturation, maybe this is why mirrors are kinder
to me as if they know the purpose of reflection is
illuminated by the fading, as if the lips are making
peace with the glass not needing my breath.
Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, North American Review and others. His work is forthcoming in The Meadow Journal and Jackdaw Review. His book, Waxing the Dents, is available from Brick Road Poetry Press.
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.