Issue Thirty-Four - Summer 2019

Dialogues

By Chet Corey

I walk around the living room
subvocalizing — poem composing.

My wife enters, folded laundry
in her arms. “Talking to yourself,”

she says. “You’re a lonely woman,”
I say, “taken to hearing voices.”

“God knows when you’re lying,”
she says, and heads downstairs

to wash another soiled load,
and I’m left to listen for another line —

to hear that other voice,
the one she said she’d overheard.

Copyright 2019 Corey

Chet Corey 's poetry has previously appeared in SHARK REEF and most recently in Common Ground Review, Studio One, The Talking Stick and in the antholgy Naming Hope (The Benedictine Center of Saint Paul's Monastery, 2019).

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