I envy people who can sleep on a bus or a train, heads bowed as if in prayer. Unafraid to close their eyes in public. I can’t sleep on a hard bench wrapped in a ratty blanket I stole from the women’s shelter without unbuckling this pair of too-tight, two sizes too small low-rise jeans […]
Tammy Smith
Tammy Smith is a poet and licensed clinical social worker from New Jersey. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review, The New Verse News, ONE ART, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Grand Little Things, and elsewhere. She received honorable mention in the Journal of New Jersey Poets 2026 Poets Prize.