Quarantaine (40th Birthday) – Jack M. Freedman
Saturday night in a Parisian discothèque
Walls covered in black light paint
One mind within hybrids of fog and clouds
Machine haze wafting amid the lights
Hookah smoke sculpting an indica sunrise
Looking through glass of an indigo bulb
Making love in a Peugeot under the moon
Tasting lips sweet as meringues
Arching triumphantly on Champs-Élysées
Feeling my blood flambé
Feeling my lips brûlée
Feeling my gut sauté
Tissues molded like a pâté
Manhood rising like a soufflé
Expectations cut like a fillet
Jack M. Freedman is a poet and spoken word artist from Staten Island, NY. Publications featuring his work span the globe. Countries where poems found homes include USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Nigeria, Singapore, and Thailand. Under the pseudonym Jacob Moses, he penned "...and the willow smiled" (Cyberwit, 2019), "Art Therapy 101" (Cyberwit, 2019), and "Seance" (Cyberwit, 2020).