Nocturne No. 23
“My dreams should come to me like a lover comes to me,”
she said to him. “They shouldn’t enter my room like an intruder,”
she said to him. “You confound me,” she said, “being both.”
Nocturne No. 27
Well after bed-time, in the book shop, our son read the title on display:
“The Art of Happiness.” He said, 6 wise years behind him,
“That’s a blind man seeing.” Closing time: the lights went off.
- © J.T. Whitehead 2020
J.T. Whitehead has published 300 poems in over 100 literary journals, including The Lilliput Review, Slipstream, Left Curve, The Broadkill Review, The Blue Collar Review, Home Planet News, The Iconoclast, Poetry Hotel, Book XI, and Gargoyle. His book The Table of the Elementswas nominated for the National Book Awardin 2015. Whitehead lives in Indianapolis with his two sons, Daniel and Joseph.
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