Loren Kleinman’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Nimrod, Wilderness House Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, Narrative Northeast, and New Jersey Poets. Her interviews have appeared in IndieReader, USA Today, and The Huffington Post. She is the author of Flamenco Sketches (Spire Press 2003), The Dark Cave Between My Ribs (Winter Goose Publishing 2014), and Indie Authors Naked (IndieReader Publishing 2014), which was an Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in the UK and USA. She has a second edition of Flamenco Sketches coming soon in Kindle format (The Only Rx Press 2014). Loren runs an author interview series for The Huffington Post Books community blogs and is working on her third collection of poetry, Breakable Things.

Breakable Things
By Loren Kleinman

My kitchen
is the only thing that exists,

one room,
floating up
above New Jersey’s fault lines.

All the things it holds
within its walls
float around me
while I sit at the glass table,
on the wicker chair,
drinking a glass of wine.

The ceiling is its own solar system.

The lights circling
around me like planets,
orbit around my cat.

Day after day,
I sit in my kitchen,
eating, smoking, drinking
alone.

I am the only girl in the world
hiding in cabinets
next to the breakable things.