Polydactyl
J.D. Smith
September 7th, 2025
Of course, I’m fucked when it comes to
buying gloves, sometimes mittens—
my Michigan has extra longitudes.
But you play the hand you’re dealt,
and sometimes digits are a lot like dollars:
better too many than not enough.
I can put all kinds of spin on a ball
and cover a keyboard—Hammond or QWERTY.
I can more than double up
when it's time to flip somebody off.
J.D. Smith’s seventh poetry collection,
The Place That Is Coming to Us, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books. His first fiction collection,
Transit, was published in 2022 by Unsolicited Press. Smith lives and works in Washington, DC. Further information and occasional updates are available at
www.jdsmithwriter.com.
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