Kelley Jean White
Spurious
My cantankerous friend calls before his
coffee, calls me euphemism but not
as simple as that sounds; his placebo
swallowed he swings into ubiquitous
curses yet bereft of his own target
causes and beneath the nadir of his
stilted politics. Laconic, I speak
of the crepuscular world that awaits
our rambunctious return. But I urge
caution. Is it too fortuitus that
Easter falls on a Sunday? It's hubris.
Gobbledygook. One more cockamamy
idea waving its diaphanous mask.
Bio
Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent collection is No Hope Street (Kelsay Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.