Ben Sloan
Sumatra Dark Roast
Trying to figure out what it is I’m thinking today,
I eventually just give up and decide to let it all go—
and when I do, I see the day sitting out there
all around me like a bunch of crows on a power line,
hunched over, each one’s back pressed up
against the surrounding blue, nervous, proud,
dismissive, combative, flexing a wing to emphasize
a point, puffing on a cigar and speaking in the same
gravelly voice heavy smokers use when they talk
with one another during their coffee breaks.
Ben Sloan‘s poetry chapbook entitled “The Road Home” was published by Thirty West Publishing House in 2017. His second collection entitled “Then On Out Into A Cloudless Sky” will be released spring 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press.