Patience Can Wait
By Eric Mohrman

this
stuttering landscape

your staggered
speech

the ashen
striation
of stratus clouds

& the stammering
light
of the stars:

I’m
too drunk for any
of it

(& to
the well-wishers

we
promised nothing)

Eric Mohrman is a poet and freelance writer living in Philadelphia. He has no BA, MFA, or degree of any sort, nor intentions to acquire one. His poems have appeared in a previous issue of Prick of the Spindle, Big Scream, Portland Review, The Furnace Review, Moria, and other journals.

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