April 2022
Bio Note: Hello, my name is Steve. This month I am re-entering a line of work I did 45 years ago: a classroom aide in special education at a public school. After a lifetime of "not getting around to it" and various other excuses, in 2018 I finally got serious about writing. I had not planned for it to be poetry. My work has been published in Oddball Magazine and Ekstasis Magazine, and my first collection, Remarkable Things was released in 2020.
A Jar of Boom
Last night
storm clouds
filled the skies
to overflowing
like gray marshmallows
some eager child
had poured
into a bowl too small.
I, that eager child
decided to go outside
to catch the thunder
in a jar of glass so
I could hold
the rumble and boom
to my foolish ear.
My plan worked
for five seconds
until the jar
rattled and spun,
the thunder screaming
to escape.
Scared witless
I dropped the jar
glass splayed everywhere,
the rumble and boom
retreating
to the clouds.
©2022 Steve Bell
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