Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

Atwitter

 

Birds roused by felines’ underbrush movements tend to remain

In agitated states. After, they sing despondent tunes else some

Other urban lions snack on bones, feathers.

 

Coeds, likewise, regularly screech when favorite singers drop

Tickets. Inchoate opportunities raise rizz, make dating great.

It’s not their burden to separate sanity and frivolity. Youth’s

Entitled to squander resources.

 

Likewise, investors sound off when stock, bonds soar, echo

Musical snorts around increased earnings, better visibility,

Maturing status. It’s about the bottom line for trust fund

Babies with paper assets always aborning new wealth;

Their security’s superficial.

 

 

 

 

 

That Girl without Sleeves

 

That girl without sleeves flipped locks toward alienated others,

All the while tapping limpid language to greet seatmates. That

Smile expunged wafting lugubriousness, that posture induced

Toska to flee. With bandage and raillery, she urged passengers

To forget unhealthy feelings, to focus, instead, on birds, clouds,

Foliage, and hillsides.

 

Yet, despite her proprioception, other men and women failed

Recognizing their train (of thought) as advancing, heading to

Dismal realms populated by ravening bosses, equally, bogans

Intent on disrupting all routines for serenity (nervous elation

Expressed by scoundrels, whether suited or in tatters, deflates

Maximum publics’ joy.)

 

Hence, the sole young female,  who wore no corporate costume,

Singly, gave a summery salute to purity, to hope, to fine weather,

Strove earnestly to overcome cabin apophases, to help folks get

Past oedematous beliefs, to lift them beyond dropsy-born views,

To urge reaching toward a shared manion, a collective paradigm

Of imperfect, albeit jubilant excellence.

 

 

 

 

 

Autism and Music

 

Positive responses to life, laughter, love are also sought by parents

Of differently-abled persons. Simple human responses evoked from

Intentionally used therapeutic tools often sate.

 

Emotional recognition & comprehension, in any case, are not mere

Buzz words, rather avenues into spaces otherwise debarring trespass.

Rhythmic stimming feels good!

 

Anxiety, social isolation, more coping strategies merely afford partial

Shelter from interactive mysteries. The bafflements of communication

Provide few answers.

 

Accordingly, it’s useful, when improving speech or actualizing

Daily tasks, to bebop, engage multimodal brain networks, swing

From chandeliers. 

 

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