Long Distance

telephone inquiries
overseas operator
dial and connect

anxious moments
listening to static
across five thousand miles

my brother’s voice

~ Joanna M. Weston

Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty five years. Her middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, published by Clarity House Press; and poetry, A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.

Read more of Joanna Weston’s poetry:
An Old Song
She Played Banjo
A Handful of Sand
Night Light
Downtown

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