On Keeping Synesthesia | Heikki Huotari

doctors in real time could be bereft of nonexistent sisters     none shall put my deity to the destructive test     a second sense is company a third a crowd     whose mood this is I wouldn't care to know     is grace a play or an abeyance     step then turn     request a wellness check     so sacred greet the faithful as the faithful only need a little piece of you     so stowaway there's no sweet tooth but food     as to be in the neighborhood is to abet to idle to condone     as subject to destructive testing or to intersecting with the zeitgeist little fish of little faith could cultivate defenders of the public order in straitjackets or plain clothes     for unto us a mulligan is given     aspirin derived from tree bark     any stranger in an elevator argues it is meet and right to be somewhat afraid    but take an average for an expectation or an eyesore for an unattractive nuisance Baba Ram Das there is nothing for you here so move along

Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous literary journals, including Pleiades, Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry and Willow Springs, and in five collections.