Panic's Poems

First pages are always filled with so much promise

but also so much anxiety at getting the beginning just right

they never were the best at getting things started, a certain bliss

from an existence just stumbling into experiences, the best nights

something they could write home about, making front pages

above the fold, of course, until that folded as well, no matter the fight

…but first pages show us we can always actually start over

yes it’s hard to know how to begin to fill it, it’s not all gross

getting to imagine what could be, what should have been covered

exercising the brain, making it create again — it needed this push.

(written 02/05/2022)