Ambition

by Elaine Sorrentino


Where are you ambition
I cannot find you anywhere
you refuse to be coaxed
from in front of the screen,
nor finessed
into abandoning your sweats.

You are neither at the bottom
of a wine glass
nor hidden in a bag of Ruffles,
I cannot sauté you into being
when you are not in the pan.

Another installment
of Gilmore Girls
or a round of Words with Friends
has yet to ignite
the extinguished flame.

I flounder
close to shore
hoping someone will lay out a feast
of inspiration
so I might celebrate
even a fleeting sense of accomplishment.


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Elaine Sorrentino, Communications Director at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA has been published in Minerva Rising, Willawaw Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ekphrastic Review, Writing in a Women’s Voice, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Haiku Universe, Sparks of Calliope, Muddy River Poetry Review, Gyroscope Review, Panoplyzine, Etched Onyx Magazine, and at wildamorris.blogspot.com. She hosts the Duxbury Poetry Circle.