JUDE MACANNUCO
SECURITY
Palm trees
can be purified.
Their estrangement
is a life worthy
of marvel.
A palm tree
can ponder.
It is relaxed, sipping
chlorine cocktails.
A palm tree pleas.
A palm tree is poured on our ailing skin.
Therefore
We lose supple daytime.
INFINITE
I.
I am buttered up
in dreams of herbal
tea,
Withdrawal being thus better.
A wilted flower
cries foul in my sleep.
Come dawn I see
my bedside lamp
still lit.
II.
A wilting flower cries
“bring me a bee.”
But there is no bee
just me.
Jude Macannuco is currently a student at Winchester High School in Winchester, Massachusetts. His poetry has appeared in Plasma Dolphin, an online, teen-run zine of which he is a regular contributor, and he is also an editor of his high school’s newspaper. In the summer of 2015, Jude partook in the YAWP Summer Teen Fellowship at Grubstreet, a writing hub in Boston, MA. This fellowship culminated in a public reading of a poem at the Boston Athanaeum.