By Lior Torenberg

Headline Poem Form:
Line #1: A headline
Line #2: Something you remember
Line #3: Something you forget
Line #4: A realization

Headline Poem #1
Here's the best way to worry
The avocados are busy with rot &
my glasses have sat untouched for a month.
Disuse can be a totem, too

Headline Poem #2
Maybe we’re too horny
The spines of certain books,
the summer-plump of fresh oranges
Touching can feel like being touched

Headline Poem #3
What we pretend to know
can kill us. So can too much water.
You never drink water, I guess
you never felt the need

Headline Poem #4
How to stop giving bad advice:
fill the bird feeder with seeds & suet &
leave the coop half-finished all winter
A year can only hold one season

Headline Poem #5
Doctors are being told whom to save
I wanted a bright blue cast, a fracture
like the wing of the bird you nursed to health.
It seems that every bird I see is blue.