Poetry
by Liliana Green

Sponge

Collage art featuring spilled ink over the Manhattan skyline

I came to New York City—to visit—

and I began writing poetry

well

and now I live here

and my ink well is empty

but of course I’ve never used

an ink well

because this is the

21st century

and if I have anything of importance to say

I just open my notes app;

let my thoughts spill out

on to the screen…

but now that I’m thinking about it,

they don’t really spill

since it’s not ink from a well

they just,

just…1

  1. I closed out my notes app and opened Instagram. I’ll come back when I’m feeling more poetic. ↩︎