Mary Crosby
After Six Months Unemployed
Dream Closed to Reality
declares today's headline.
"Ain't that the truth," I say
to the empty house
picturing a barricade, a detour sign,
the road to success
rutted and blocked.
But when I turn the paper
right-side up the bold caption
actually reads: Dream Closer
to Reality. And I wish it could be
that easy, a simple adjustment
in perspective
when the world seems upside down.
Bio
Mary Crosby is an Assistant Professor of English in the department of Composition and Literature at Bergen Community College in Lyndhurst, NJ. She has poems published in Calyx, Dos Passos Review, Earth's Daughters, The Kerf and other journals. Her chapbook Alluvium Stream was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press.