there’s a tank
on my mom’s street
her neighbors are getting shot
for sitting on their porches
drones overhead
hovering all night long
but they’re worried about a bunch of corporate windows
let go your pearls and get involved
don’t stand
for this
this is not
the right kind
of kneeling
A graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, Jerome Berglund spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised. For the past several years he has lived a relatively quiet life, spending his time reflecting, exploring what he learned over the course of a somewhat checkered young adulthood, via writing, poetry and fine art photography. Berglund has published short stories in Paragon Press’s Veisalgia and the Watershed Review, a play in Iris Literary Journal, and poetry in Abstract Magazine, the Dewdrop, Wild Roof, Lychee Rind, deLuge, GRIFFEL, and Ulalume Lighthouse. He recently interviewed the author of Bird Box for the literary journal he managing edits, which has published original writing and poetry from a poet laureate, a Green Party presidential nominee, and a world renowned citizen journalist. Recent publications of his writing and photography can be perused on his website: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/blog-1/
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