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Splendid news to share: two of my poems, “Yellow,” and “Listening to a Grandfather-Clock ASMR Recording after Reading a Short Poem by Lorine Niedecker” were just published in the latest issue of October Hill Magazine!
Check out the opening lines of “Yellow” below, and clickey-click on this link to read the two full poems at the issue, as well as the work of many talented fellow authors as well. Also, consider submitting your own work—they were wonderful to work with.
“Yellow”
today it feels exceptionally good
to use this yellow
marker, to draw it across
the lightly lined page,
just to run as heavy as possible a line
with the fine nib
pressed into the thinner gray line
to mark it off that I’ve already
answered early work emails, had
lunch, cleaned up after, organized
my desk, sorted through a stack of books
for donation, and it feels good, too,
to hover in the air above the page
to think about drawing a sun with wavy rays,
the petals of a sprightly daisy, a compact car
negotiating a curvy road, but then…
[continued at October Hill Magazine: clicky]