March 2021
Dale Wisely
dalewisely@gmail.com
dalewisely@gmail.com
Bio Note: I run Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, which publishes Right Hand Pointing, One Sentence
Poems, Unbroken Journal, and Unlost Journal. In May 2021, the press will publish the first issue of
first frost, a twice-a-year print journal of haiku and senryu. I am a clinical psychologist, surviving in
Alabama. I believe I may be the only psychologist/poet/licensed ham operator in North America.
I wish it could all be on one golden afternoon
in Illinois and Louisiana
and Manchester
and Paris and Rio
and Mumbai
ticker tape and music,
a sailor kisses a woman
in the middle of the street
Hospital doors fly open
and come now the weeping nurses
to dance with their patients,
the ones saved
and the ones lost
The sunlight cannot be
bright enough to let us sort
the living and the dead
Grandparents kneel and beam
while their children and grandchildren
bound toward them, arms outstretched,
masks falling to the streets
©2021 Dale Wisely
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