The Tight Possible

by Pamela Nocerino
 
 
If I felt worthy
of the love
I offer others,
what would
tick, spin,
loosen, or cling?
The long songs 
of Sundays
and midnights
would hum 
in what key?
I drum 
evergreen needles
like jazz brushes
against the tight
possible
and try.


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Pamela Nocerino is a ghostwriter and teacher who once helped build a giant troll in the Rocky Mountains. She enjoyed a brief career on stage in Denver until she needed health insurance. Then, she taught public school students for over 20 years and raised two inspiring people. Two of her short plays were selected for staged readings in Colorado and Georgia, and some of her poems were published Plum Tree Tavern, Splintered Disorder Press, Gyroscope Review, Third Estate Art's Quaranzine and Capsule Stories. Most recently, she had a short story selected for Jerry Jazz Musician.