The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Jonathan Totman

Part of a slightly abstract painting showing (I think) a mirror (or window), a blue door, and some red vertical lines that could be curtains ... or a draped scarf ... or something.

This ritual of witness and professionalism

D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)
Frozen

Frozen

by Jonathan Totman — She wants to know what makes the villain / lift his sword. I tell her sometimes people do / bad things when they’re sad or angry or scared /and we wonder about the brothers who pretended