Joe Spinelli is a poet from Long Island, New York. His work has been featured in Ascent Aspirations, Paragon Press, DASH Literary Journal, and Haiku Universe. He lives and writes in New York City.
Monday
By Joe Spinelli
You mention a story
About a mother and father
Who kept their children captive
Some house of filth
I lay in bed
Circling images in my head
A cool breeze to shadow me
I watch time crawl on the ceiling
Like a wounded animal
The dust on my table slipping away