Jon Wesick , Poet

Jon Wesick has published over sixty poems in small press journals like American Tanka, Anthology Magazine, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review, Limestone Circle, The Magee Park Anthology, The Poetry Conspiracy, The Publication, Pudding, San Diego Writer's Monthly, Slipstream, Tidepools, and others. His chapbook My Father's Ashes won runner up in the San Diego Book Awards. His latest chapbook is Zeno's Paradox and a Kick to the Groin. He has a Ph.D. in physics and has worked in medicine, software, and communications. John is a long time student of Buddhism and the martial arts.

HOLLOW

Sadness recalls the shakuhachi’s(1) wail.
Love’s absurdity,
my fears and dreams
no more permanent
than breath through bamboo.

Plagues of car alarms
the bulldozer’s worried bellow
a crow’s distant call
the wind’s hush through pines

Openness, at the center
Resonance


(1) Japanese bamboo flute

REMEMBERING OSCAR


A woman bends toward the monolith
and places a kiss
of acceptance on the rough white stone.

Rest now.
Your persecution is over.
The rusty iron bars that eclipsed your light
in the damp Victorian prison cell
are only a memory.

Gardeners tend flowers in the Paris sun.
Red and pink outlines
       of a hundred lips
             adorn the tomb.

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