Insouciant

by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Indifferent, ostensibly unconcerned, elsewise appearing apathetic,

Unhelpful for manqué mates plus partners frustrated over life goals.

Few emotional tocotrienols exist capable of changing attitudes among

Persons under-impressed with dear ones’ reduction to minute fragments.

After all, comminuted feelings make no matter to self-serving individuals

(They’d rather isolate in video games or anorexically circumnavigate until

Their lovers fall asleep, overdose, or gun themselves down owing to grief.)

KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus.

Her creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals.