SPHERES OF DOMESTICITY #27

Joseph Lee Meads

 Our loving wives drive us
 drunkenly into the neighbor’s
 knot garden; scented bruising
 leaves coupled with gasoline,
 equations of mud flung afield
 via whitewall tires balding
 – O how so Americana! –
 we effort in vain in howls
 over the miserable growls
 of the Buick & its radio
 speakers heaving into
 that midday disarray
 a cello concerto
 by Schumann,
&, somewhere,
toward the rear 
of the lot – 
somewhere;




                countless hummingbirds





                                                       – a-humming.

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Joseph Lee Meads is a diagnosed schizophrenic and currently an MA student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has previously been published in Columbia Poetry Review, Chicago Literati, Lover's Eye Press and elsewhere. He posts images of his muted television onto Instagram: @joseph.lee.m