My fingers are this water faucet

Existence is sweet- savor it
In the crevices of your dried and cracked lips.
Feet swollen- like no other
It’s not like the pregnant lady
Giving birth to kittens;
Existence is sweet- proprietors of
Oil drilling monopolies.
Fretting too much

Over personal anxieties – Existence is sweet;

My fingers below the
Arduous mirror, the mirror
Calling for running water,
The running water coming from

This water faucet-
My fingers are this water faucet.

Jack Cuffaro is a Junior at Dover Area High School. He has been awarded a silver key in Scholastic Art & Writing for one of his poems, has multiple poems published in TeenInk Magazine, a poem published in Shippensburg College Literary Journal, and a poem published by The America Library of Poetry in their 2023 student poetry compilation. He is the managing editor of his school newspaper, Dover Dispatch, and the Editor-in-Chief of his school literary magazine, A Talon’s Touch.