Featured Poet SS 2019
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Joseph K. Wells is a businessman, doctor of occupational therapy, part-time professor and a few wannabes from time to time. A selection of his published works is posted on https://paperonweb.wordpress.com .
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Bipolar
(First appeared at Section 8 Magazine)
Mania
towered my hopes,
masked my insecurities,
exposed my yearnings.
Aspirations
crumbled by reality,
annihilated into elements
smelted in dirt.
Invisible to you,
I find myself
reunited again in
lost poetry…