Even the dark meteor of a hearse,
hauling its tail of twenty cars across
the suburban afternoon, paused on its path
to its waiting crater for the bus’s lights
that flashed crimson against sunny yellow,
the departed yielding the right of way
to the boy with his vinyl backpack
and a handful of papers that fluttered
in the breeze as he ran across the road.
Kevin Casey is the author of Ways to Make a Halo (Aldrich Press, 2018) and American Lotus, winner of the 2017 Kithara Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2018). And Waking... was published by Bottom Dog Press in 2016. His poems have appeared in Rust+Moth, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Connotation Press, Pretty Owl Poetry, and Ted Kooser's syndicated column ‘American Life in Poetry.’
ISSUE NINETEEN: Stymy A Seller
Holly Lyn Walrath
Orbital Debris
Jane Akweley Odartey
From a Platonic Angle
Jeni De La O
After a Hurricane
Tam(sin) Blaxter
Earrings (Yves Saint Laurent, Paris)
Amy Poague
The Beforeworld: Riding the Bluest Line
Through an Archive of Sky
Chris Winfield
Identivacationing
Amie Zimmerman
Trust
Jill Khoury
chronic lyric i
Kevin Casey
Right of Way