Am I Real? by Doug Holder

sometimes
i wonder.
i feel
like the mist
a transitory ghost
that dissipates
into the ether
a trail of vaporous
cigarette smoke
i feel
like an empty
glass
among cups that
runneth over
when the clouds
roll in
i want to join them
i want to billow
far above
and far away.



Doug Holder (he) is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and the Co-President of the New England Poetry Club.