a sad body
without a lift
inside adler shoes
walking down
narrow streets
in the loneliness
of city lights
drawing out the
sad colors with
a strong yellow
bar of light
that the artist
passes off as
a gift.
Guy Beining’s work has appeared recently in the Iowa Review, the South Carolina Review, Fiction International, Skidrow/Penthouse, The Bitter Orleander, Creosote, and Gargoyle. He has two books of poetry in print: I guess my loss is almost gray (Rain Mountain Press) and The Silence of my Room (Chintamani Books).