By Paulette Guerrin
Argument on hold, we sit.
The waiting-room phone rings;
we don’t know the name.
We’re beginning to feel like drones
whose queen has found another colony.
We sink deeper into our magazines
while the TV tells us the things
we need, as if we have forgotten.
Paulette Guerin lives in Arkansas and teaches writing, literature, and film. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, epiphany, Contemporary Verse 2, Twyckenham Notes, and others. Her debut collection Wading Through Lethe explores memory, loss, and metamorphosis in the landscapes of an Ozark Mountain childhood and travel abroad. She also has a chapbook, Polishing Silver as well as a chapbook-sized selection in the anthology Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry. Her website is pauletteguerin.com.