Friday, March 20, 2026

Heather Romero-Kornblum

Is Poetry Fake News?


My poetry is not fake news

he said

it is directly channeled from 

my muse


Deeply offended

he asked 

why I said

all poetry is fake news


Nothing about poetry

is fake


Fickle though we may be


As poets


We do not perform

sleights of hand shadow 

work with our 

fingers or mouths


    My muse is coy

    Seductive

    with its filtered self

    pity cry


There are no fickle poets

he says


I hear fickle

I think of pickle


My muse spoke this to me


I saw

Shadow work


A trick 


My

Self


In 

The

Mirror


I am

Not

That old


I told myself

As I picked up

My pen




This Is Also the Weather


I fell asleep while

You held my leg and dreamed we 

made out




It’s the Sky, Again


My god descended


from a rusty nail

colored mist


tattered wombs in tow


Replace 

man 

made to dust


she said


eating a guava popsicle


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Heather Romero-Kornblum

Is Poetry Fake News? My poetry is not fake news he said it is directly channeled from  my muse Deeply offended he asked  why I said all poet...