Long in Bed

Sep 2, 2025 | 2025 Fall - Aging, Poetry

By Jane Barnes

81, long in bed weak arm
Spend the 18 hours alone
Eating oatmeal cookies
And eleven pills and to

Pass the time I watch Love
Is Blind Germany, UK, Japan,
Sweden, New York. Pick the
Smartest thru my wall. The

Phone love see romance in
Tahiti live in a balconied
Apartment with my chosen
One. I know what I want

Chat wit. Dark Gemini Hair
From losing Paul in foolishness
Joe who wasn’t mine in any
Country but these loves all stay

Jane Barnes has published work in BWQ for more than 14 years, and has poems in Gay & Lesbian Quarterly, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Massachusetts Review, and Wrongdoing. Her work appears in the anthologies Bi Any Other Name and Getting Bi.

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