I am ashamedI keep worryingabout the nextspot of evil on skin I should be overthat habitwhich has worna groove in my jawthat magnificent hingeof a doorjambI have clenchedinto a bombed outopening inside a face I should try not todwell on the yearsof pressure on my shoulderhow my heartblasts its bloodlike a bursting dam how pain treksfrom eye to sinusto drips that … [Read more...] about Dwell, By: Phyllis Klein
Phyllis Klein
About Phyllis Klein
Phyllis Klein is a psychotherapist and poet living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently Sheila Na-Gig, Comstock Review, Mad Swirl, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and The New Verse News. She has won several finalist awards, and has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. Her book, The Full Moon Herald was 2021 finalist in the Eric Hoffer awards. She hosts Poets in Conversation, a Zoom reading series started during the Pandemic.