Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Absent

Mark J. Mitchell has been a working poet for 50 years. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things.

Absent

The body abandoned
this day. It didn’t just
take it off. It left.
There was no note.
Nothing was taken
except twenty-four hours
that will never return.







Article © Mark J. Mitchell. All rights reserved.
Published in the May 20, 2024 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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