If you suffer from
triskaidekaphobia,
good luck. You’ll need it.
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If you suffer from
triskaidekaphobia,
good luck. You’ll need it.
Category Archives: nervousness
College acceptance letters
Envelope size, thick
or thin. We look for clues, don’t
like to be surprised .
College midterms
She calls, panicked, freaked.
Can’t breathe, can’t focus, can’t write.
I soothe, long distance.
Salon visit
She contemplates bangs,
a different color, hair
as reinvention.
Out of wedlock
for S.
Without a ring she’s
uncertain, the baby no
guarantee he’ll stay.
Candid confessions of a college-aged daughter
“I’m telling you but
don’t worry, I’m fine,” she says.
I listen, but do.
Weed laced with PCP
She turned to cake, felt
herself melting, the devil
eating his way out.
Hearing herself on CD
When her voice leaves her
body, recorded, it’s a
stranger who comes out.
Writer friend
When she’s not funny
her raw candor grips readers
probing her deep wounds.
First boyfriend breakup
She didn’t want to
hold his hand, watch him eat bread
sloppily. The end.
a haiku a day 