<div class="line2">fireside rug</div>
<div class="line2">wishing the dog</div>
<div class="line2">would take me</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="body-text">Six years it was, sleeping on couches. Waiting for Mam to get better. Every aunt took a turn. And every uncle.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line2">earliest sketchbook</div>
<div class="line2">red running</div>
<div class="line2">off his face</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="body-text">Sounds grand. Not like at ours.<span style="font-style: italic;"> No one’s touching his balls</span>, Gramps would scream, after one too many. Granny chopping the veggies with a vengeance. We kids turned up the TV but couldn’t stop staring. At their collie, humping the loveseat.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line2">school project</div>
<div class="line2">the futile search</div>
<div class="line2">for scissors</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="body-text">Huh! Never had a dog. Had a rat once. Thought it was a boy. One of my cousins dissected it. Said it was a girl. That she could tell ’cos it didn’t cry.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line2">upping the ante</div>
<div class="line2">after doctors and nurses …</div>
<div class="line2">first switchblade</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="body-text">That’s nothing. Found a photo of Da in a shoebox. Him in his uniform holding it glued to his shoulder. That little smile. A badge for marksmanship, he said. As he pointed his rifle at the boyfriend.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line2">goth makeup</div>
<div class="line2">blending in</div>
<div class="line2">the bruises</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="body-text">Bruises? You were lucky. My whole body was a bruise. And knees were always red-raw. Had to lick the driveway clean. Whenever they let me out. The only unscarred skin I saw was through a keyhole.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line2">eyeball to eyeball</div>
<div class="line2">the one-upmanship</div>
<div class="line2">of burst blood vessels</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BearyWattsPints.mp3"></audio></figure>

Poem in which Barbie Qualifies for Medicare

Kill Them in the Morning

Two Pints

<div class="line">My husband likes to say that love is blind,</div>
<div class="line">and little flaws are meant to be forgot.</div>
<div class="line">This morning while washing out my thong</div>
<div class="line">I checked his phone for texts, all is not fine</div>
<div class="line">since I read them. Killing comes to mind.</div>
<div class="line">The photos on his phone are steamy hot,</div>
<div class="line">I didn’t recognize my best friend Charlotte,</div>
<div class="line">all dolled up in black lace, the sex store kind.</div>
<div class="line">My therapist would say forgive, move on</div>
<div class="line">and I try my best but it’s not easy</div>
<div class="line">although slicing up his boxers helped a bit</div>
<div class="line">as did forwarding his boss those dick pix</div>
<div class="line">from my husband’s phone. Love might be blind</div>
<div class="line">to little flaws but not the cheating bastard kind.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BearySonnet.mp3"></audio></figure>

Fast Facts About Famous People

Pictures of Ourselves at Twenty-One

Sonnet #1: My Way

<div class="body-text">Smoking pot in the cafeteria with my friend Susan singing &#8220;Society’s Child&#8221; and I sing along our matching flower shirts like we’d stumbled into a field of buttercups and we’re staring at a sky of blue butterflies we don’t see the gum stuck under the table cause we’re stoned and the teachers don’t give a shit and I want to be Janis Ian strumming a guitar but today I have piano and when I get home Susan’s in the backyard crying and I sneak her into my room and her married brother bangs the front door screaming you tell my sister I’ll the beat the crap out of that guy if he ever shows up again and Susan and I hide out all afternoon playing &#8220;Society’s Child&#8221; on my big sister’s stereo careful the needle doesn’t scratch cause she’d kill me and when my sister beeps we take the steps two at a time and for once she’s nice and gives Susan a ride to her mom’s and the decades roll by and Susan and I lose track but I send her my book anyway and she calls and talks about the old days and I tell her Janis Ian says she’s done with music and writes haiku now and I am the same as I was that day in the cafeteria and different too which is hard to explain but after I find Susan’s address I pencil a paper with buttercups and three lines that say</div>
<div class="line2">rising from</div>
<div class="line2">the pebbled path</div>
<div class="line2">blue butterfly</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BearyJanis.mp3"></audio></figure>

Still

Poets Respond

How Are We Doing?

When I Read About Janis Ian I Am the Same Only Different

<div class="line">broken vein</div>
<div class="line">of a heart-shaped leaf</div>
<div class="line">memorial bench</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">across the great divide heron and i</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">hospital lab</div>
<div class="line">an unknown cluster</div>
<div class="line">of paper cranes</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">monsoon over</div>
<div class="line">moss covers mother’s</div>
<div class="line">maiden name</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">season of light</div>
<div class="line">the soldier hands me</div>
<div class="line">a folded flag</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">bedtime cocoa</div>
<div class="line">i unfriend the ghost</div>
<div class="line">of christmas past</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BearySix.mp3"></audio></figure>

Echo

The Moon Is Covered in Rabbits and Trash

Six Haiku

<p class="stanza" style="text-align: justify;">The fridge is empty. Which means someone stole my sandwich. And stuck me with this blueberry yogurt. Expiration date two weeks ago. Who stole my lunch. Or is it at home. Retrace my steps. Retrace. Did I take my lunch off the counter. I’m not sure. I was in a hurry. I set the alarm. Remember setting the alarm. Did I lock the door. I’m sure I did. I set the alarm and locked the door. My stomach is making weird noises. I’m starving. A slightly dated yogurt should be okay. Or maybe not. I might get sick. Salmonella, E.coli. I know the symptoms. Fever, diarrhea, abdominal cramps. I’m feeling queasy. It’s this yogurt staring at me. I’ll move it. Behind the baking soda. Where no one looks. If I’m not careful, this job will kill me. It really will. Kill me. I remember setting the alarm. Did I lock the door. I’m sure I did. I’m sure.</p>
<div class="line2">black fly </div>
<div class="line2">on the cutting board </div>
<div class="line2">last night’s dream</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BearyLunch.mp3"></audio></figure>

Have You Forgotten

Truck Carrying Live Eels Overturns on Highway 101

Lunch Break

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<div class="line">super moon</div>
<div class="line">mother goes quietly</div>
<div class="line">back inside</div>
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<div class="line">funeral lilacs</div>
<div class="line">my sister undoes</div>
<div class="line">dad’s watch</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div class="line">worry stone</div>
<div class="line">the shape of grief</div>
<div class="line">worn smooth</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div class="line">after the cartwheel cumulus and i</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div class="line">carousel moving through my childhood</div>


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