here and now

Jim LaVilla-Havelin

August 3, 2022

here and now

are

gloriously

separate from

then and there

and

while I plod

along

and pace

means little

or nothing

it

does make

it

possible to

get to

hither and yon

somewhere

that used to be

for

someone else

here and now

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the author of six books of poetry. His most recent, Tales from the Breakaway Republic, a chapbook, was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, in May 2022. LaVilla-Havelin is the Coordinator for National Poetry Month in San Antonio.