Waiting Room For these faces dispossessed nothing changes only waiting gaps in synapse for these faces, brief hope, medication isolation drunk with poison languished time tables empty promise for these faces no arrivals or departures a mask of slumped despair, juxtaposed, lonely anguish for these faces for these faces in the waiting room eyes locked, wrinkled silence in darkness, separated in darkness, separated juxtaposed, lonely anguish empty promise gaps in synapse for these faces, waiting room. Daniel Brown Daniel Brown is a retired Special Education teacher. His poems include a variety of styles and subjects from Haiku to poems about music, art and social issues. Daniel’s work has been published in Chronogram, Jerry Jazz Musician And Mightier: Poets For Social Justice among others. He reads his poetry from time to time on his YouTube channel “Poetry From Shooks Pond” and is working on his first collection Family Portraits in Verse. He lives in Red Hook, New York.
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July 2025
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