David Icenogle

David Icenogle is a writer and mental health advocate from the Midwest. He has written non-fiction work for the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, as well as poetry for Asylum Magazine, A Tether to this World, Main Street Rag, Rising Phoenix Review, From Whispers and Roars, and others.

“Medicine Ball,” “Existential Crisis in the Cereal Aisle,” and “Retirement Home, Room 314”

When I hate myself I reach into photo albums
and pull the child version of me into the present.
I make myself look at that boy
and say the awful things I have said
to the mirror in my mind.
The condemnations rush away
like the refugee raindrops that scatter