December 2021
Tom Weiss
tomweiss@tds.net
Bio Note: I am a graduate of Phillips Academy/ Andover, Mass and Vanderbilt University. Formerly a commercial real estate developer, my poem "dogs" was published in Bark! magazine and the collaborative poem "Almost Human" was published in Mixitini Matrix.

my next great love

I waited twelve years.
what choice did I have?
I had looked in all the dark corners
that attracted spiders and me
under all available skirts
with fragrant shaved legs
before I realized
she was already here.

backward glance

he thought of looking in the mirror
but that’s not where he saw 
the boy walking alone
between a pasture and a glowing
horizon beyond a mammoth 
swamp in its season of fire
holding his lunch 
in a paper sack
holding his dreams
yet undreamed
sensing a wonder
without wondering
just wandering
like a migrating cur-
lew or a solitary 
sailing crow
©2021 Tom Weiss
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