James W. Reynolds
Dry Cleaned
It's a coffee-spilling day
despite my desperate need
for every drop that drips
on my formerly pristine
dry-cleaned white shirt.
The sun hasn't even come up yet.
The bundled-up homeless are still asleep
under the bridge as I drive by.
It's a middle-management day —
where dire budgets are discussed
behind softly closed doors
and layoffs loom.
Bio
James W. Reynolds lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His work has been published in Artemis, Blue Lake Review, BOMBFIRE, Boston Literary Magazine, Defenestration, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, Ariel Chart, Lighten Up Online, Parody, The Broadkill Review, The Loch Raven Review, and The Oddville Press.