Fourteen
by Gene Barry

  1. The hormone factory
  2. at full production
  3. metabolic workers
  4. working overtime
  5. no supervisor
  6. no manager.
  1. Appetites with
  2. different tastes
  3. plunging themselves
  4. into mindsets
  5. menstrual lessons
  6. tormenting.
  1. Adolescent busy
  2. in her workshop
  3. building physical
  4. and emotional
  5. awkwardnesses
  6. and misunderstandings.
  1. Listlessness and restlessness
  2. sailing in tandem
  3. while the jettisoned
  4. low self-esteem and
  5. self-consciousness
  6. are restock by
  7. restless attitudes.
  1. Blind emotions trot
  2. out in abundance
  3. scattering struggles
  4. and unawarenessess
  5. attitudes and behaviours
  6. their guides.
  1. The abstract lands
  2. on a runway of reason
  3. a contraband of dramatic
  4. tendencies in tow
  5. a new fast lane
  6. building itself
  7. a wide berth.
Packingtown Review – Vol.11, Spring 2019

Gene Barry is an Irish poet, psychotherapist and art therapist whose work has been published and translated internationally. Stones in their Shoes was published in 2008, Unfinished Business in 2013, and Working Days in 2016. Gene has read in Australia, Holland, Kosovo, England, St Lucia, Scotland, France, Belgium and Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Miami, NY and Massachusetts.

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