New Poetry by Anne Mikusinski

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Thinking about 

How you let 

Your tenuous 

Hold

On continuing

Slip away

Without a protest

Leaving only echoes of 

Questions 

And assumptions

And half a million theories

Of what should and could

Have happened

Which fuel 

These restless late night words 

Imagining

All the conversations

That might have been.

- © Anne Mikusinki 2023

Anne Mikusinski has always been in love with words, whether they have been read or spoken aloud. She  has been writing poems and short stories since she was seven years old. Her influences range from Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath to David Byrne and Nick Cave. She hopes that someday, her  writing will be as much of an influence on someone as these writers have been on her.