by Larry D. Thacker
are slid between some of that paperwork
you’ve stuffed in the desk drawer.
There to right. The one
that might never get organized.
A few suffer an endless insomnia now,
longing only for little gifts of relief
vibrating from the world: low mumbles
over a cigarette, the scoot of a chair
on wooded floors, the warming hum
of a laptop spinning up,
that same woman’s rhythmic clicking
of freshly polished red nails as she daydreams
on something new to write about.
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[Larry D. Thacker’s fiction and poetry can be found in over 200 journals and anthologies, including Spillway, Poetry South, The Lake, The American Journal of Poetry, and Valparaiso. His books include six poetry collections, two chapbooks, four short story collections, and a folk history. His MFA in poetry and fiction is from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Visit his website at: www.larrydthacker.com.]
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