Tremulous Afternoon in Airless Rooms

Loneliness: a social pain

Clouds in lacey white dresses
hurriedly pass o’er rooftops
salaciously dancing ‘round
puffed-up
inconspicuous Wind

Sun, red-faced
like a disgruntled sentinel
beams stronger
bellowing “Order!”
to the frolicking clouds;
his abhorrence ignited
by their blatant charade

Withdrawn and timorous
I watch them
as the afternoon takes shape
on the outside
of my airless room

Sun
disregards me

Wind
is nonchalant

Clouds
prix fixe;
flaunts flouting

sigh

None see
the silence
nor
the sad corners
that linger here
in airless room
almost forgotten
on this tremulous afternoon
gripping my soul

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I Wish You Miracles.

Short Bio:

Selma Martin is a retired English teacher with 20 years of teaching children ESL. She believes in people’s
goodness and in finding balance in simple living. She lives in Japan with her husband of thirty-four years.
In 2018, Selma participated in a networking course whose final lesson was to publish a story on Amazon.
After many failed attempts, she completed the course and self-published her short story, Wanted:
Husband/Handyman, in 2019. Later, collaborating with peers from that course, she published Wanted:
Husband/Handyman in an anthology, Once Upon A Story: A Short Fiction Anthology.

Selma has published stories on Medium for many years, in MasticadoresUSA, The Poetorium At Starlight, Short
Fiction Break, Lit eZine, and Spillwords.

In July 2023, Selma published a debut poetry collection on Amazon through Experiments In Fiction. In April
2024she was published in an anthology, Poetry Treasures through Word Craft Publishers, and in June 2024 in
a haiku anthology, Pearls of Haiku through Literary Revelations Press. You can find Selma on her website,
selmamartin.com, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as selmawrites.

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