Built to Be Here Now

by Heath Brougher / March 6th, 2022

It is the end of April and life
has, again, brought a cruel surprise—
this time with a wallop heretofore inconceivable.

Maman is dead.

Change—the one and only constant
of the Human Experience.

Define Kintsugi.

Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has authored twelve books, the most recent of which is Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy (Sandy Press, 2024). Read other articles by Heath.

This article was posted on Sunday, March 6th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.