grandma's phone call - gerard duncan jr.

on my birthday

I wait for your call

your voice records

my aging

every year the same

song     I love you

I eat dinner with Tom & Jerry

still       no ring

check the phone volume

all the way up

in three years

I haven’t aged

Gerard Duncan Jr. is from Walla Walla, WA and has lived in Prague and throughout the US. He earned a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Gerard’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Deal Jam, Hot Pot, Mania Magazine, The Rome Review, and elsewhere.