Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Tuesday poem #685 : Ben Berman Ghan : $2[.]75

 

Help!
I                   know            going
          Don’t           what’s           on.
A dog keeps barking in my
Head & the movements of
His tails say all things are
Within reach without cases
          Oh
                     My god
Does your husband know about
Penmanship?
                     Oh
          My god
Three decades scratching out in pleasing
Ink.
          I thought to part with pennies
For the sake of smiles and silly things
                               What
                     Do you mean this
          Pen costs nearly 300$
Pfffffffffff — oops
All my inks I take for free

 

 

 

 

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), as well as Behold the Dead (Anstruther Press 2025), Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020), and What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest books 2019) His second collection of fiction, The Library Cosmic, is forthcoming with Buckrider Books for spring 2026. His prose, poetry, and criticism have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, and The Ancillary Review of Books, and has been reprinted in such anthologies as Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction. His work has won the Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction, and longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ben is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, where he lives with his partner and two cats. Find him at inkstainedwreck.ca

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

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