Going Home by Nolcha Fox

 

Philip Serino

Going Home

It’s 5 o’clock. The buildings pour

the tired workers out their doors.

The workers who walk home now drag

themselves to where the sidewalk ends.

They drop frustrations, fears,

and setbacks on the ground.

Each barefoot step reverses hours,

days, then weeks, then months, then years.

Burden-free, they run through mud to catch

the tadpoles in the puddles left by rain. 

Children jump into the stream,

hide-and-seek among the trees.

They hopscotch, jump rope, kick a can

until their mothers call them home to eat.

© Nolcha Fox

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Nolcha Fox

Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 and 2025 Best of The Net, 2024 Best of the Net Anthology. Nominee for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Editor of Chewers by Masticadores.

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PRETENDING TO SLEEP by Irma Kurti

 

Evgeniya Litovchenko

PRETENDING TO SLEEP

 

I have closed my eyes,

pretending to sleep;  

afraid to move,

I cannot even breathe.

  

So cold under the sheets,

I want to leave this bed;

I want to lie in a green park,

where I don’t have to fake.

 

I want to rest in a meadow

that leaks tranquility; 

in a place without you,

immersed in joy and peace.

  

I’m pretending to sleep…

© Irma Kurti

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Irma Kurti

Irma Kurti is an Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator. She is a naturalized Italian and lives in Bergamo, Italy. She has published more than 100 works, including poetry, fiction, and translations, and has written approximately 200 song lyrics. Her books have been translated and published in 18 countries.

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