You yell you yell you yell

and I

in confusion

listen

listen

listening

to the rant of your

drumming

drum

drumming

voice

and I am listening

bewildered

as you keep

beating

beating

and

beat down

my

burdened

heart

A native of eastern Long Island for over 60 years, DOE-ANN POWELL’s poems have appeared in Portfolio (aka The Greenpoint Folio), The East Hampton Star, Long Island Quarterly 25^th Silver Anniversary Anthology, Walt’s Corner of the Long Islander and Youtube. “Though I’m not a prolific writer,” she says, “I like to think that my poetry reflects personal relationships and East End living.”