Today, I discovered
I have a superpower.
Yes, you can call me
a superhero of sorts.
Not all of us wear capes,
though it’s under consideration.
What’s my power
you ask?
Well, it just so
happens to be evasion.
Evasion of recognition,
of them dreaded awards.
I have an invisibility cloak
so them cats don’t see me.
Don’t worry about titles,
these words are for you.
If I got a nomination or won,
it’d be a sign my cover’s been blown.
& there's only one way
I want to be blown.
Tim Heerdink is the author of Somniloquy & Trauma in the Knottseau Well, The Human Remains, Red Flag and Other Poems, Razed Monuments, Checking Tickets on Oumaumua, Sailing the Edge of Time, I Hear a Siren’s Call, Ghost Map, A Cacophony of Birds in the House of Dread, Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay (with Tony Brewer) and short stories “The Tithing of Man” and “HEA-VEN2”. His poems appear in various journals and anthologies. He is the President of Midwest Writers Guild of Evansville, Indiana.
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