Anxiety in the A.M.

Dark shivers, quivers,
tremors, clawing at my spine;
resolve ripped away,
doom, hollow fear hammering.
I wither, my strength wanders.

Tain Leonard-Peck writes plays, poetry, and short stories, and is completing his first novel. He is an actor, monologist, and model. He paints, and composes music, and is a competitive sailor, skier, and fencer. He has a play in production that he’s acting in, and his work has been published in several literary journals. He currently lives on a family farm, but has lived all over the world. He has cave-dwelled, shark-dived, and not been defenestrated by a temperamental donkey named William Shakespeare. He thinks the world is a place of wonders. He's frequently bitten by geese.