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Friday, September 27, 2024

Introducing the Poetry of Corey D. Cook



Childless

 

She passes the tarpapered

chicken coop on her way back

from the fertility clinic.

 

Red heat lamp glowing

in the plastic-covered window

like the heart of a preemie

under translucent skin.

 

The one baby delivered,

but never brought home.

 

Earlier in the day she counted

two roosters, five hens.

 

Envious, as she is now,

of their prolific eggs,

the dozing chicks tucked

under ample breasts. 




Sunday Morning

 

The flag shudders

above the schoolyard

as daffodils stand

at attention  –

silent trumpets raised

 

He lies on his side

by the jungle gym

 

No longer hungry

for the handgun

in his mouth

 

His hollowed-out skull

slowly succumbing

to light




Biography


Corey D. Cook's seventh chapbook, Passing Cars, was published by Maverick Duck Press in 2023. His work has recently appeared in Cajun Mutt Press, Freshwater Literary Journal, Last Leaves Magazine, One Art, and Stone of Madness Press. Corey works at a hospital in New Hampshire and lives in Vermont.