Rich Glinnen

Here for When You Can Taste It

Since you’re sick,
I catch the kiss
you blow at me
from across the room,
not with my hand,
but my armpit,
and flatten it
into a cookie:
 
homemade,
from scratch,
which is why it’s not round,
but chocked
with bulges and dents,
shaped less like a cookie
and more like the heart
that was put into it.

Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, has had his poetry featured on Rich Vos’s and Bonnie McFarlane’s podcast My Wife Hates Me, and is a mainstay at the Nuyorican Poets Café. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. He currently has two cats, two kids, and one wife.