New Poetry by Mike Dillon

Being Right

So, we’ve arrived at the right answer,

the committee chair intoned.

And slammed his gavel on the worn sound block.

And somewhere the coin of light

at the far end of a lost corridor 

is guillotined the way an eyelid shuts.

While the forgotten question lingers

like an old scrotum on a severed vine.

- © Mike Dillon 2022

Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. His most recent book is a chapbook, The Return, from Finishing Line Press (March 2021).