The 2River View | 27.1 (Fall 2022) |
Patricia Whiting Help Line There were overdoses every day. Cakes and shrooms in pretzel tins. Doppelgängers floating Insects crawling on the sill Do you feel vermin crawling over you? They’d meet at the gravel pit Sour scent of marigolds. Flocks of dark birds I have mixed emotions, The bones of a life There were overdoses every day. Skeins The house is cold. In my father’s sock drawer The rain comes in torrents. Patricia Whiting is a West Palm Beach painter-poet. Publications include a chapbook and two collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in Slipstream, South Florida Poetry Journal, where she is now on staff, Thimble Literary Magazine, and others.
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