Meg yells ‘whoa’ on the Ferris wheel
but the spinning doesn’t stop.
Harold chews one regret after another
on a bed made for two.
Jackie keeps walking the dog
the opposite way it wants.
Joe continues to converse
with an enemy he imagines.
Marge says her husband is a hell-of-a-man
and hates him for it.
Richard’s cigarette smoke drifts
like the details he leaves out of his stories.
Riley carves a heart in her shadow
to make it bleed.
Mackey brags about his inabilities
while holding a winning hand.
Lilith can’t stop
not going to the opera.
Robert reluctantly admits
the world has made quite an impression on him.
— BRAY MCDONALD
Bray McDonald finished a triple major degree in Environmental Issues from the University of South Alabama in 2000 where he studied poetry. He retired as Senior Educator at the Tennessee Aquarium and moved to Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where he spends the majority of his time focused on writing.