James Croal Jackson (he/him) has a chapbook, The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017), and poems in Pacifica, Good Works Review, and indefinite space. He edits The Mantle Poetry (themantlepoetry.com). Currently, he works in the film industry in Pittsburgh, PA. (jimjakk.com)
Laundromat
by James Croal Jackson
I want to breathe dirty
cigarette lungs
into the bed grime you say it
is time to bless the sheets
with renewal so we spin
around the laundromat
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