I Need Poetry — Now

I need poetry right now to help me see I have gone blind by the world rushing, crushing, sweeping by in a blur. I need Harryette Mullen to slow it down to make a list A list will make it solid, real. I can manage maybe with a list.

I need poetry right now to help me hear All the voices around me are so loud insistent that theirs is The Truth And by screaming it loud enough they can entice me to believe I need Kate Baer to black out what is noise what is lies what is gas-lighting and what is simply wrong leaving less words less noise Leaving only the true.

I need poetry right now to help me feel. I have forgotten how or maybe I have been numbed by busyness by games by work, by food, by “mommy juice” I need Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to teach me again that I cannot get over grief I can only go through it.