DRY LIPS

 

 

the stream
      parched  

the heart
      lips

the lung
      lips

the light
      dark

the night
      parched

the night
      lips

the lung
      dark

the stream
      heart

the lips
      heart

the heart
      parched

 

James Croal Jackson of Columbus, Ohio, is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Rust + Moth, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere.