Waiting for the End by Scott Wiggerman

This listlessness. You wallow
in another day, another day
not quite the same as depression,
but definitely a complementary shade.

The same book retrieved from a shelf
with the same bookmark at the same page
of another day. Another day
like a household cat’s, interchangeable

Sundays, Mondays, holidays. Days
differentiated by what’s new on TV
or when you run out of clean
underwear (Wear another day?

Who’s going to care?). Two months
and the canvas is still empty,
the journal still short of words. Maybe
another day, maybe tomorrow, maybe.



Scott Wiggerman is the queer Albuquerque author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the editor of several volumes, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry. In 2021, he was inducted into the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters.