Sunday, February 19, 2023

Break by Chad Parenteau

My moment
is now.

No one 
else agrees.

Clocks lie
to them,

say save
for later

that never
arrives.

All time
stolen,

nothing 
given.

Kill it
in hiding,

bury where
it is missed.




Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His latest collection is The Collapsed Bookshelf. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The Rye Whisky Review, Nixes Mate Review and the anthology Reimagine America from Vagabond Books. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine.

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