Anxious Poets Society
bed weather

in this broken avenue my heart sleeps for peace feeling the asphalt that was just wet:
my body becomes a tumor.
for this fixed linoleum flooring
my breath heaves—dry.
ruining silence by a broken picture frame
my soul yearns to be a sweet wind.
Sleeping. Sleep-
ing... Sleeps.
Jan Franz M. was born and raised in Caloocan, Philippines. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila with a BA English. Mark Twain’s work: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is his favorite novel that made him dream to be a writer someday. His poetry influences include Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, E. E. Cummings, Nick Joaquin, and Jose Garcia Villa.
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