Claudia Gary
A Cure for Insomnia?
Fathomless fears who grind away my slumbers,
I’ll feed your gears imaginary numbers.
©2019 Claudia Gary
Claudia Gary’s poems appear in anthologies and journals internationally. Author of Humor Me (David Robert Books, 2006) and chapbooks including Ripples in the Fabric, Bikini Buyer’s Remorse, and Epicurigrams, she also writes health science articles for VVA Veteran and composes tonal chamber music and art songs. She teaches “The Poetry of Science, The Science of Poetry” at NIH (GENL355, faes.org) and teaches workshops on sonnets, villanelles, and meter at The Writer’s Center (writer.org). She occasionally sounds off on Twitter as @claudiagary. See pw.org/content/claudia_gary.
John Dutton
The Poetry Schmuck
I’m the poetry schmuck, and I’ll write anything for a buck.
But, sometimes I run out of luck and cry out, “Oh, crap!”
© 2019 John DuttonJ
John Dutton is a middle school teacher of language arts in Prince William County. He is the founder and host of Spilled Ink VA. [www.SpilledInkVA.com] Spilled Ink is an open mic for writers, poets, and scribblers. It is held every fourth Friday at Jirani’s Coffeehouse in Manassas, VA.
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
Claudia, every partical of your two liner is stellar: The title: “Insonsomnia” is a great lead in to that in-between dozing state, the f-f of fathomless/fears , the g-g of grind/gears lends internal rhyme that is pleasing and there’s a monster in that jumps out saying “boo” in the wonderful word imaginary. Thanks for your great poem!
John, Thanks for a middle school laugh to start my day. You penned this in the kids vernacular, oh your students will love this 2-liner! Well done!
What good two -liners. John’s made me laugh.
Claudia’s struck home. Very well done.
Yes, I laughed too! Thank you both.