Micah Bauman, Spring•Summer 2017

A Shorting
Micah James Bauman

I have a shorting
in my heart
not a longing as some say

I have been living
a tiny thin truth
and by no shrink
of the imagination
can I explain it

I have been shorting
for something less

I once knew
exactly what I wanted
but maybe I was wrong
all ashort

Micah James Bauman enjoys photography and audio/video production, as well as poetry and word play. He has read his poems at local art galleries and poetry gatherings, including Faustina’s in Lewisburg, The Station Gallery in Lock Haven, and the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Micah’s first published work was in pages of The Lock Haven Express in the form of reviews of young adult literature for the Annie Halenbake Ross Library. He was published in the summer edition of Word Fountain in 2016. Read more of his work at monkeyprodigy.wordpress.com.