cobwebs glisten in sunlight By Tohm Bakelas

exactly 3 weeks since i 

drank booze of any kind, 

exactly 21 days sober.

when i got home 

around 1 am,

i knew it’d be 

a night of staring 

at darkness. 

i drank half a bottle of NyQuil,

and felt the warmness of

it’s possibility coat 

the lining of my gut. 

when i woke at 10:43am

i couldn’t keep my eyes open. 

i was hungover, watching 

the minutes pass by

and turn into hours. 

at 5pm

my kids 

would be 

home,

i decided to

sleep until then. 

Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He has published 13 chapbooks. He runs Between Shadows Press.

Tohm

https://tohmbakelaspoetry.wordpress.com 

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