Photography © Edward S. Gault

 

whether
or not he said it
Confucius

 

public portraits
my fingers trace the faces
one at a time

 

crunching numbers
into alphabet soup
mathematicians

 

she packs
her dancing shoes
heads to Vegas

 

1:24 am
clock hands
on a pub crawl

 

floating
around the office
hot-air balloons

 

origami mine shaft . . . tunnels fold

 

gym day
minding my
watts and mets

 

carousel horses
the floral one takes
my apple

 

safe
under our water heater
countless spider eggs

 

other than
red geraniums
nobody home

 

stable numbers . . . all out of 7s

 

Roberta Beach Jacobson is a left-handed poet from Iowa who rescues cats. A free spirit, she rarely leaves the county and finds solace with nature. She is the fleakeeper at Five Fleas Itchy Poetry.

Edward S. Gault is a poet and fine arts photographer living in Brighton, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Oddball Magazine, Spectrum, Wilderness House Literary Review, Interlude, Currents, and Encore. His poetry collection, Airhead and Other Poems was published this year by Read and Green Books.