Jonathan Rentler
yoke of gravity
i’m too old
for child’s pose
can’t hold a chair
& my table top’s warped
when told to breathe
be a mountain, be a tree
my knees-lock
uprooting & i crack
tumbling down
ward past the mat
floors, sewer to sea
more corpse than baby
on my back, mouth
open as the sky
Jonathan Rentler is the author of the chapbook Times Square Words# 1 (Yonkers International Press/Blurb 2017). His work has appeared in LOLA, Babbling of the Irrational, Fickle Muses, I-70, Ganymede, Unlikely Stories 2.0, and Midnight Muse.
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