Megalomaniac by Tricia Marcella Cimera

megalomaniac
 
maybe this is what we all need:
one of his kind to teach us something.
haven’t we all been waiting
for him to show up in our dreams?
isn’t it time for it to be our turn?
now i know what my father’s 
czech village felt like in 1939;
the kerchiefed women, the stoic men,
the goats behind wooden gates.
oh shit.  well, let’s see what happens.




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Bio: Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Look for her work in these diverse places (some forthcoming): Buddhist Poetry Review,The Ekphrastic Review, Foliate Oak, Failed Haiku, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, Wild Plum and elsewhere.  She has a micro collection of water-themed poems called THE SEA AND A RIVER on the Origami Poems Project website.  Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland).  She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox.

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