One Sentence Poems
Skip to content
  • About
  • Poems
  • Index
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Privacy

John Grey

When the Wife’s Away

The dirty dishes
are stacked in the sink
like a pyramid
and the archaeologist
will be home
any day now.

John Grey adapts to occasions as they arise, subtly if at all possible.

Share this:

  • Share
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
05/24/2017PoemsJohn GreyDale Wisely

Post navigation

← Micki Blenkush “Two Ships, Long Marriage” John Grey “On Running into My Ex at a Restaurant “ →
One Sentence Diagram

Editors

Dale Wisely
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
Tony Press
Robert Scotellaro, Editor Emeritus

Recent Posts

  • From the Editors
  • J.R. Solonche “On the Wall of the Hospital Room”
  • J.R. Solonche “My Shadow”
  • Frederick Charles Melancon “Apartment’s Sonata”
  • Jon Densford “A Poem As a Precipice”
  • Gwen Hart “Living Out West”
  • Misky Braendeholm “Too Early”
  • Ali Salzmann “We’ve Lost So Much”
  • Violette Taylor “Reading List”
  • Jason M. Vaughn “Where a round bale stood, just moments ago”

Chapbooks

Ray Templeton: The Guillemot Jump

More coming soon!

 

Archives

One Sentence Diagram

Subscribe (free) and get a poem in. your inbox 3 times/week.

Your Editors

Dale Wisely
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
Tony Press
Robert Scotellaro, Editor Emeritus

Editors

Dale Wisely
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
Tony Press
Robert Scotellaro, Editor Emeritus

Recent Posts

  • From the Editors
  • J.R. Solonche “On the Wall of the Hospital Room”
  • J.R. Solonche “My Shadow”
  • Frederick Charles Melancon “Apartment’s Sonata”
  • Jon Densford “A Poem As a Precipice”
  • Gwen Hart “Living Out West”
  • Misky Braendeholm “Too Early”
  • Ali Salzmann “We’ve Lost So Much”
  • Violette Taylor “Reading List”
  • Jason M. Vaughn “Where a round bale stood, just moments ago”

Chapbooks

Ray Templeton: The Guillemot Jump

More coming soon!

 

Archives

Proudly powered by WordPress
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.