Poetry

Tenderness, Intimacy, Hope, Fear, Love and Dreams

by
Jéanpaul Ferro

The crippling sound of the rain falling on the leaves of the garden,

holes of green ripping through the darkness of the night that's coming,  

rippling seams beating faster and faster down on the porch like wings,

the weight of my own soul like ten souls trapped inside this human body,

all the emptiness, the worthlessness of Hemingway's last penny by the pool,

blood droplets raining inward, dark spirals in the cage that is the universe,

black horizon curving, drifting through the air like ghosts without life,

 

the sight of you with your husband having dinner while I float up against

the ceiling.

Jéanpaul Ferro is a poet, freelance writer, and novelist. His work has appeared in Portland Monthly, Hawaii Review, Newport Review, The Plaza, Mid-South Review, and Biblioteka Alexandria. His work has also been featured in The Plaza's masterpiece series and Votobia's Anthology of America's Writers. He currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island.