JOE OPPENHEIMER - POEMS

Joe Oppenheimer is an award winning poet and fiction writer.  His poems focus on our feelings of injustice, loss, friendship, nature, aging, and the foibles of life.  His short story “Charlemagne” is anthologized in Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family, Love, and Faith.  ed. Marita Golden (New York: Arcade, 2019).  Previously a professor of mathematical social science at the University of Maryland, his poems, stories and a play have been published in Origins, Chronogram, Foliate Oak Literary Review, Corvus Review, and Scarlet Leaf Review, among others. 
​Many of his writings are available on his website http://www.gvptsites.umd.edu/oppenheimer/.

​INTERIORS

I go to Google
line up cross hairs
move camera up stairs
find just where streets cross
but can’t see inside her purse
or pierce her mind to find
the purpose
of that gun.

​THE FOG

Fog floods
rubs rust
with greys. Grass
sways in front
of slightly
seen silhouettes:
trees sketched onto
Silver.

As it lifts
the fog gives
back colors,
the whole scene,
and we come
to know who
we are and
​ where we stand.