Ideas pour
Quivered with nerves
All my streets are strewn with roses
And this is the path I want you to tread
Jiggle it, ice cubes clinking
Hey slim, dark dream! This 2-step
You got me doing is a killer
Throat filled with stardust
In a eulogized garden
Inscribe some wisdom
Show mercy for all crimes
What remains of you
Is what sustains me. Visible blues!
Like lyrics by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
About a tall skinny papa
Salvation! In a world full of all
This thorny need
Connie Johnson is a Los Angeles, CA-based writer who was twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iconoclast, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, San Pedro River Review, Cholla Needles, Voicemail Poems, Misfit Magazine, Mudfish 23, Exit 13, Glint Literary Journal, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, The Rye Whiskey Review, Sport Literate and Door Is a Jar. Everything is Distant Now (Blue Horse Press), her debut poetry collection, is available on Amazon; In a Place of Dreams, her digital album/chapbook, can be found at www.jerryjazzmusician.com
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