GAS Featured Poet: Gerry Fabian

He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts and Ball On The Mound.

In addition, he has published four novels : Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, Seventh Sense and Ghost Girl. 

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Hidden Danger
 
Holding a slight advantage
in various venues
determines the degree.
Depth of situations
elongate mini-moments.
Never exist like this.
 
Detouring the collapse
always fails -
Negating any luck
generates rapid response.
Enter with extreme caution
rather than broken bravado.

When The Fad Fades Away

 

You were in my creative writing class.

With your black Goth girl clothing

and multiple piercings,

you felt they marked you as creative.

You sat in the back with ear buds

and never took a note.

The final grade was based on a portfolio

of work completed during the semester.

When I opened your folder,

all it contained was a stained grocery list.

 

Today, several years later,

I see you in Walmart

pushing a stroller

while holding a screaming toddler

on your hip.

Our eyes meet but you quickly

turn away and hurry down another aisle.

You drop something in your haste,

I go over and pick it up.

It is a grocery list

and I resist the urge 

to correct the misspellings.

Requiescat Canto V

The Maze

 

Is it a matter of escape

that so gluts the brain

so as to fuse the torment

into a walking sloth

that spews wounded oaths

at chairs and walls -

that falls to the floor

and writhes in a fire singe

of personal doubts -

that freezes motion

for hours upon hours

in a living altar sacrifice

to atone for the anguish

that has no other escape.

 

I have been to the brink,

wavered at the edge

and stopped the fall

just often enough

to know that escape

has captured too many

of the people I love.