Mitchell Grabois

LAMPS

Listen to Audio Version read by Sean Maloney.

Seen from the night street

the lamps in my wife's office

                        bend their necks like Roseate Spoonbills

undisturbed, elegant

as they hunt their breakfast in the shallow lagoon's mud

My wife is doing paperwork to put her mother

in a nursing home

Sometimes we need proxies to signify our grace

Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over eight hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for work published in 2012, 2013, and 2014. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. He lives in Denver.