My Apologies to Student Poets (and "Taste" by Jessica Laser)

Unfortunately I am struggling to transfer student poetry to this site. Over the next week Poet's Watch was going to feature poets Jace Henderson ("A Villanelle for the Family Road Trip"), Elyse Moser ("The Day of the Funeral"), Jassmine Dominguez-Torres ("Ode to her" and "Light"), Gabby Grider ("New Beginnings") and an anonymous poet ("Tobi"). If I am able to circumvent the issues I will feature them later on. I can assure you they were all marvelously crafted poems.

In the meantime, here is a poem by Jessica Laser that I just loved:

Taste

by Jessica Laser

All my life I’ve asked my master

Why I am unable to choose

This sweet man or fancy shoes

Over this stranger, more difficult lover

And these expensive but practical loafers

And why I am unable to author

A book exhibiting my full potential

And have focused instead on inconsequential

Letters to strange and difficult lovers

Who by my letters were never changed.

I certainly haven’t been constrained

By terrible parents or trauma or poverty

And even if I had it wouldn’t explain

My propensity for misery

Anymore than it would my

Propensity for joy.

Maybe I’m just a procrastinator

As life is a procrastination of death

And each breath just a procrastination of breath

And friends a procrastination of work

And work a procrastination of love

And love a procrastination I’m just not above.

Read, listen, share, create, and be on watch.