Matthew Caretti

Sunday Bells

I never knew sleeping so many cumulative hours was possible. Nor the simultaneous reading of so many books.

nota bene
the last ink chamber
nearly empty

Leftover DoorDash for breakfast. I build church steeples with the pizza bones. Make a silent toll of the pandemic.

zoom communion
before the priest
I drink all the wine

The rest of a cold winter day. Warm inside with my quarantine cat. His sleep apnea the inverse end of emotional support. Now the usual, after my nap his nap.

the trouble 
with breathing
nightly news

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Matthew Caretti began publishing his poems in 2009, though his fascination with Eastern short-form genres began much earlier. In 2020, he won the Genjuan International Haibun Contest’s Cottage Prize for “Call to Prayer” and received Honorable Mention recognition for “The Car in the Petrol Station Lot” in the Haiku Society of America’s Haibun Contest.