I Still Scream

By Laine Derr

Still scared by a show
I watched as a child,
children who wake up
in an unknown bed –

not realizing a stranger
has taken their dream-filled
flesh, sad and hungry like

a night

shift mother handcuffing
drunks, a father who chases
bottled blondes to another

light

at the end, mouth taped,
wrists tied, struggling to be
I think, Be Here, to panic

flailing w/ terror, is to feel –

Meet the Poet

Working w/in "patterns of our nature," I wanted to share the following poems: "I Still Scream," "lo-fi love," and "The Sky". I hope you enjoy. Laine Derr has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Work has appeared or is forthcoming from EPOCH, The Amistad, Denver Quarterly, ROPES, Prairie Schooner, Chapter House, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.