ISSUE NINETEEN: Stymy A Seller | ← first poem

Right of Way

Kevin Casey

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 | ← first poem











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