Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked 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 out now collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Thank you for the feature, Gloria Mindock. I'll be buying your book before the weekend starts.
It was fun to move this poem from images of discarded masks from Patricia Carragon to neglected holy symbols with our feature. It's journeys from open mic to feature like this one that make writing these poems fun.
Talking about the pandemic and lost souls seem to go hand in hand. I decided to write about some of them this week. Thanks for reading.
Let your masks
join the ranks
of bus stop trash.
Death will kindly
make each stop
to pick you up.
