is all you get before the public address announcer calls your name and the music has to end, and there’s so much to accomplish,
Read Morecalling the shots, catcher is conduit between all, holds the
Read MoreIt stung the first time. Second grade. I was picked middle of the pack for kickball. In that last inning I was on deck. One out already.
Read MoreI was maybe 13
during that last
Lil Penny stands in line at Java the Hut waiting to order a thimbleful of espresso. He feels a tap on his shoulder, turns around.
Read MoreWe watched our first derby from my Grandpa Bud’s third floor room in the Good Samaritan Elder Care facility, which overlooked the Carver County fairgrounds.
Read MoreThe embarrassing shine of new clubs,
clunking against my shoulder, I scan
A pocket sized chapbook with a dark, blurry cover design, concussion fragment’s (elsewhere press 2022) look belies its heft in a way that is apt considering its speaker’s many normalized repressions.
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