by Chad Parenteau
The Boston Herald says
when Joe Biden falls
it is spring
but press
begged for pageantry
for interviews
hot breathing mouths
near
the edge of six feet
obsessed with
closeness
waiting in the sun
the children
in the camps
incidentally
in Georgia
there were
the dead Asian women
but look
Joe Biden falling
Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He is a contributor to Headline Poetry & Press and serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His latest collection The Collapsed Bookshelf was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award.