I’m waiting for the locomotive and its chain of clacking boxcars and caboose to roar around the corner of Daddy’s train board. Electric smell of friction and the building fury of the train as I sit, as close to the edge as I dare, pray it will make the turn but knowing it sometimes derails […]
Jean Anne Feldeisen
Jean Anne Feldeisen is a 75-year-old grandmother from New Jersey living on a farm in Maine. A retired psychotherapist, Jean Anne had her first poem published at age 72 in Spank the Carp and more published in The Hopper, The Raven's Perch, Neologism, Thimble Literary Magazine, Rising Phoenix Review, Eunoia, Mockingheart Review, and Fairy Tale Magazine, among other publications and anthologies. Main Street Rag published her first chapbook, Not All Are Weeping, in May 2023. In the fall of 2023, she and her friend, Argy Nestor, self-published their collection of poetry and art, Catching Fireflies. Follow her at jeanfeldeisen.com.
A Manor of Endings
Next to the nurses station in hell you sat, my dapper, well-groomed dad in an adult diaper. When you fell onto your face out of the wheelchair they quietly replaced you. I pretended not to see. Like a […]