Spin by Chad Parenteau

Party over
when revealed
all are invited.

Crashers
dash through
open door.

Unwanted
trip over
own beverage.

Walls of
sound break
listen.

Noses scrunch
not everyone
can inhale.

If all
rejoice
no one does.

hosts
hail
authorities.

Circles spin
off with
out tops.

Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus, released in 2013 by FootHills Publishing. His work has appeared in Tell-Tale Inklings, What Rough Beast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming. Photo by Jerry Hoyt