JOSEPH K. WELLS - POEMS

Joseph K. Wells is usually employed as a businessman, doctor of occupational therapy and adjunct professor, as the situation may need. Since he began publishing in 2016, his poems have found a home in over a dozen online and in-print journals and lit mags. A selection of his published works is available from https://paperonweb.wordpress.com/. 

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Coexistence
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​I look through space-
a one-way mirror,
and see you
with my doppelgänger.
 
My body- a hologram
in your real world;
our lives programmed
dimensions apart.
Feelings big-banged,
scatter further
with speeds greater
than thought.
 
Yearnings- an impossible
travel through space,
launch oblivious to man-
made time and direction.
Sensations are numbed,
nulled, in the vacuum
that binds together
our eternal separation.
 
We live
in parallel universes.
 

Without You
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​ 
time is
an old, rusty, rickety- rackety farm truck
on dusty, rugged, unpaved roads,
 
moving more side to side than forward
 
with me hanging
like the charm to the rearview mirror,
swinging uncontrollably
 
with the slightest of bumps.