Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Too Hot are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 25th between 3 and 4:30 pm PST.

Friday, October 24, 2025

Mary Langer Thompson

The Right Stuff


Some say I taste too brainy,

Not salty enough

Shirking from the scent

of earthiness.

Honey is too sweet for me—

leave it to the bees.

I itch to embrace deadlines:

Submit! Submit! Submit!

I race toward the future,

time melting like Dali’s clock

not sucking up the now.


I need to eat more chips with hot salsa,

to make me thirst for the right manna.


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