Joel Thomas Katz

The Horizon Snatchers

What’s left: no place for day to end,
no distance far enough from now,
no frame for the restless ocean.

Joel Thomas Katz is a Silicon Valley poet who has worked as a business software specialist.  

Joel Thomas Katz

After the Pheresis Donation

The technician wraps my crook-of-arm puncture site
with bright blue adhesive gauze, connecting my body
to the sky that lately has eluded me.

Joel Thomas Katz is a Silicon Valley poet who has worked as a business software specialist.  

Joel Thomas Katz

Amsterdam

As a KLM wide-body glides overhead toward Schiphol,
the heron asks if there’s any hope of being beautiful.