Saunterer
Traipse around the arcade with a flourish
like your life depends on it
The spectacle of the circus
The market square in the town center
My echolocation discombobulates my inner
ear and confounds my faulty thus
flowering heart
Jacob Schepers (@JacobSchepers) is the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project 2014) whose writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from such places as Verse, [PANK], Midway Journal, and Heavy Feather Review. With Sara Judy, he edits ballast, an independent online literary journal.
Flâneur
To lose myself in love and folly I windowshop
for a discounted tire swing that promises
to carry off the world
when pushed above a certain tree line
to leave me suspended
midjump and looking down to see
the Atlantic City Boardwalk
beneath my feet and likely
to stay there as I spin
swiveling my head to take it all in