Jonathan Greene 10/29/26 Jonathan Greene 10/29/26

Every Little Thing

Like the sun and the rain
and the morning and
the depths of night and
the dew drops on the
grass and the bead of
sweat on your eyebrow

Jonathan Greene 10/27/26 Jonathan Greene 10/27/26

Unhandy

I can’t put together anything from IKEA
because I don’t have the time to read
pantomiming in print with arrows showing
me how to make go completely insane

Jonathan Greene 10/20/26 Jonathan Greene 10/20/26

Spilled

and then I look back
at my soul puddle
and realize that
all of my hopes
and dreams might
just be at the bottom
of the Heinz ketchup

Jonathan Greene 10/14/26 Jonathan Greene 10/14/26

Cold

I don’t feel much when
the snow and ice come
because these veins
have been drinking
cold water every day
in the shadow of light

Jonathan Greene 10/12/26 Jonathan Greene 10/12/26

Sandwich

When I hear the word sandwich, sometimes
I think of myself being stuck between two
people on the subway and not knowing
which of them keeps farting because neither
has lifted their leg or made any indication
that they were the flatulent train rider

Jonathan Greene 10/9/26 Jonathan Greene 10/9/26

The Length of Time

I don’t know how long it was
between your second-to-last
breath and your last breath,
but I know that time receded
and I was a hologram of myself
in a dirty underhang of despair

Jonathan Greene 10/1/26 Jonathan Greene 10/1/26

Crumpled Papers

But there was something in all those
crumpled papers that found their
way to all sides of the waste basket
and I think that something was
honesty

Jonathan Greene 9/25/26 Jonathan Greene 9/25/26

The Cold Side of the Pillow

The cold side of the pillow
is only a reminder of the
choices I continue to make
that suit where I am at
this point in my life as
an older gentleman
who is much more
comfortable in the cold

Jonathan Greene 9/23/26 Jonathan Greene 9/23/26

Let Them Fly

Just because they can fly
doesn’t mean they will fly
away into the clouds above
leaving us holding their perch

Jonathan Greene 9/1/26 Jonathan Greene 9/1/26

Breathless

My breath continues strong,
refreshed by a long walk
and propelled by the thrill
of parenting while parentless
because you can have one
without the other, and it’s
all I ever wanted to have

Jonathan Greene 8/25/26 Jonathan Greene 8/25/26

Hopscotch

I spend most days leaping
from one box to another,
making sure not to fall
into the blank spaces
that separate me from
the rest of the world

Jonathan Greene 8/12/26 Jonathan Greene 8/12/26

Unmoored

But sometimes, if we
allow ourselves to break
free from our dock,
the open sea is all
we need to find the
courage to swim free

Jonathan Greene 8/9/26 Jonathan Greene 8/9/26

Basking in the Glow of a Shallow Pool

It’s strange to look for
some kind of solace
in a puddle outside of
a nondescript building
on any road in this
city of wayward fog
and capsized humans