DISCONNECT
don’t adjoin me
……………………………………….no soupçon of infecting
………affection
……………..……………..……………..……no brush of a feather’s dust
if it is the diffidence
………of a possible lie
if it is the difference
……………..……………..of uncertainty
……………..……………..of unknowing
……………..……………..of unusualness
……………..……………..……………..……………..then a touch to test
is good enough
there can’t be ill
………..or illness
…………………..in trying
but don’t try to connect
……………..……………..……………..……………..with a single plume
……………..…………………….of your real
fake news
Author’s Bio
Mike Ferguson is an American permanent resident in the UK. Widely published online, his recent poetry in print is Professions (The Red Ceilings Press, 2018) and Precarious Real (Maquette Press, 2016). A retired English teacher, he co-wrote the education text Writing Workshops (Cambridge University Press, 2015).