New Poetry by Mark Danowsky

Scarcity 

Priced out of produce

I turn to frozen, canned

Boxes & bags 

searching for less 

Salt, long blocks

of chemical lists 

Nothing but bloat 

these bright red flags 

Selling life short 

to those without

- © Mark Danowsky 2023

Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. He is author of several short poetry collections including, most recently, Meatless (Plan B Press). His poems and other writing have been curated in many journals including Alba, The New Verse News, anti-heroin chic, Right Hand Pointing, The Broadkill Review, Gargoyle, Otoliths, and elsewhere.