Divergent By Corey D. Cook

Snow falls in the divorce 

lawyer’s parking lot 

as papers are signed.

 

Lives divided.

 

Soon the asphalt 

will be dotted 

with footprints –

each set a sovereign 

and solitary ellipsis.

Corey D. Cook's seventh chapbook, Passing Cars, was published by Maverick Duck Press in 2023. His work has recently appeared in Cajun Mutt Press, Freshwater Literary Journal, Last Leaves Magazine, One Art, and Stone of Madness Press. Corey works at a hospital in New Hampshire and lives in Vermont.