Two excellent poems by Ken Gierke

Bio

Ken Gierke is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. His writing has appeared as two micro-chapbooks from the Origami Poems Project and is included in several anthologies. He has been featured by numerous online journals, including Literary Revelations Journal, As It Ought to Be, Poetry Breakfast, Amethyst Review, Silver Birch Press, and Ekphrastic Review. Three of his poetry collections have been published by Spartan Press: Glass Awash in 2022, Heron Spirit in 2024, and Random Riffs in 2025. His poetry can also be found on his website, https://rivrvlogr.com/

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Wayback Machine

Don’t ask me how I got here
Eyes open or closed
It was all the same
Lights passing in the night
Headlights, taillights
Every seam in the road
Lifting me
Dropping me
Maybe if I’d tried to
Count them
Listen to them
Let them tell me where I was
I’d know how to get home
Instead of lying in a tunnel
That goes nowhere
As it hums and whirs, thuds
With a bass that holds no beat
Yet knows me better than I do
Sees the real me
Only to return to stare at walls
And out a window that tells me
Nothing about the way back
If there is a way back

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Road to Recovery

126 miles home and
you feel like you could walk
every one of them, but you know
you won’t make it into the first.

Pack your bags. Make that one.
It may be 18 days, but the clothes
you started with will get you home.
Load it into the truck.

You’re a passenger today,
first time in a very long time.
Seat back, feet up.
You have a long ride ahead of you.

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