Written ‘In Synergy’ with Gazing Again by Ed Barguiarena
Dropped in the middle
of the canyon
road
just notice, don’t get involved,
blackbirds big as eagles
screaming highwire family
Dropped in the middle
of a well-tempered clavier
chimes matching my heartbeat
sudden breeze
bending branches
cool again
Dropped in the middle of a sunshower,
filling the world with jasmine’s
sugared scent
no muscles needed
nothing more to say
an imagined poem
Dropped
in the middle
of an unwanted void
During a career practicing and teaching at UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry, W. Hans Miller published three books: Personal Stress Management for Medical Patients, Systematic Parent Training, and a memoir, Soothing: Lives of a Child Psychologist. His poems appear in or are currently forthcoming in Last Leaves, Last Stanza, and several anthologies from the Moonstone Poetry Center, including Haiku 2022, HOPE 2022, Nonsense Verse, and Struggling for Liberty. Miller recently published his first book of poems, Nancy’s Song: 21 Poems, and his chapbook Ever the End of Things is forthcoming from the Moonstone Poetry Center.
