April 2024
Bio Note: I recently published Oblivescence by Kelly R. Samuels through my company, Red Sweater Press, which opens for queries re: publication of book-length collections of poetry and prose April 1. I am also hard at work on my MFA with Antioch University L.A., and just changed my concentration from poetry to screenwriting. I've been spending much more time on scripts than poems, but I'm trying to achieve more balance now.
April
April is like a month of Mondays:
From Fools Day on the first
to Tax Day on the fifteenth
(keep in mind we’re only halfway
to the end now), it spans the weeks without relief,
from the most irritating pranks
to the harshest realities of our lives—
which include the misleading promise
that April showers bring May flowers
(where are YOU from?)—
and that there’s life after, not death,
but taxes, which haunt us like
irreverent ghosts of our financial failings,
or at least, some of our failures
to read and do math.
First appeared in Stakes, 2019
©2024 Caitlin M. S. Buxbaum
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