Houston
Sometimes, I mourn moving,
alley-black cool night in
spring, blue bonnet bird-dog
country coupling mouths and
ice, one-shotter pissant
jazz pastoral: oak, perch,
pulpit, radio, ice
house, a sleeve of stars, a
beer, their touch, a reprieve.
Sometimes, I mourn moving,
alley-black cool night in
spring, blue bonnet bird-dog
country coupling mouths and
ice, one-shotter pissant
jazz pastoral: oak, perch,
pulpit, radio, ice
house, a sleeve of stars, a
beer, their touch, a reprieve.
Barbara Duffey is the author of the full-length collection I Might Be Mistaken (Word Poetry, 2015), and the chapbooks The Circus of Forgetting (dancing girl press, 2013) and The Verge of Thirst (South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2013). A 2015 NEA Literature Fellow in poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Western Humanities Review, and Best New Poets 2009. She is an assistant professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University and lives in Mitchell, South Dakota, with her husband and son.
Meggie Royer is a writer and photographer living in Minnesota who is currently majoring in Psychology at Macalester College. Her poems have previously appeared inWords Dance Magazine, Winter Tangerine Review, Electric Cereal, and more. In March 2013 she won a National Gold Medal for her poetry collection and a National Silver Medal for her writing portfolio in the 2013 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her work can be found at writingsforwinter.tumblr.com.