Stone Soup Croutons, 6-11-25: While Recovering

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

Lee Varon returned to feature this past Wednesday. It's been too long since we've had her back. Watch her feature if you weren't there.

Because Lee started off the night, here theme became the dominant theme of this week's poem. I'm glad for it. Her work is important and inspires.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

While Recovering

The waiting. For a bed.

For the one in tow to run

out of manic resistance. 

For empty platitudes from 

those in smug isolation.

For those waving while

inside their own insidious

cycles. For those who 

prewrap more temptations.

For those who bemoan

the sad state of your life raft. 

For those back home 

trying to tear down your

sick ward's false Gods. For

those neighbors who plan to 

monetize their latest horrors. 

For those bored by their 

surveillance of your waiting. 

For the one you've carried 

for so long to wave farewell, 

cut free of their white whale.  

 

Special thanks to Bil Lewis, Richard Spisak, Jan Rowe, Nike Truth, Edward S. Gault, Rita Rusty Rose, Robert Fleming, James Van Looy, Jon Wesick and special feature Lee Varon.