Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/14/21

Wolf Moon fog

My personal travail is strong today,
brain’s foggy as this morning
as I tried to gain footing
in the funky, mental mud—

I write a new myth:
sunshine bleeds into everything
through the park trees.
Fog is finally eaten up by the sky.

But I stay in,
waiting for the full Wolf Moon
to make an appearance
before I howl out
my blue mood,
obliterating it—

Still spooked by
another heartsick wind,
I turned my goddess ID in
& listened to comedians gawk
as I slowly got bombed
on G&Ts like a drunk hawk
flying—

Will your love save me tonight?
Or do you have to work late,
as I wait to gain shape
and feelings once again?

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review and First Literary Review-East. Her poetry collections: Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019, and In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was recently published in February 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York. https://carriemagnessradna.com