Sometimes we say things
we don’t really mean.
I tried to explain this
to her. She said she
understood. “I like you
anyway,” she said, “and I
promise not to kill you
in your sleep.”
Photo By: Auntie P
Say Things
by Norman Minnick | Nov 4, 2014 | Poetry
About The Author
Norman Minnick
Norman “Buzz” Minnick is a poet and playwright.
His second full-length collection, Folly, is published by Wind Publications. He is the author of To Taste the Water: Poems (Mid-List Press, 2007) and several chapbook collections including Two for the Cold, a collaborative work with Laurence Atwood, (Broadside Books, 2000) and The Overreacher (Broadside Books, 1998). He is the editor of Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century (White Pine Press, 2010). He has not yet written a play.
Minnick is not Poet-in-Residence at a university and he has not been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In fact, he has won no major awards.