There's Hard Light and Soft Light
everyday. The same church van
driver insistently honks
for the same elderly lady
dressed for God. My open
3rd floor window faces
the street. The sidewalk
dug up. Now it appears
the same young mouse
I released last week is under
the neck of a red wine bottle
in the recycling bin. Bring it
outside again. Runs clumsily
toward the liquor store.
The bright yellow sign. Yesterday
a man ran out of there
and got hit by a taxi. As the driver
argued with a witness
the man lying conscious across
the yellow lines. Only his left arm
moved. Caressing the bumper
as he looked blankly into the sky.
About the Poet:
Kevin McLellan lives in Cambridge, MA,
and sometimes teaches po- etry workshops at URI. He is the author of
the chapbook Round Trip, a col- laborative series of poems
with numerous women poets. Kevin has recent or forthcoming poems in
journals including: American Letters & Commentary, Barrow
Street, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, Sixth Finch, Sugar
House Review, Western Humanities Review, Witness, and numerous
others.
About the Sound of Sugar:
We’ve loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), so now we want an opportunity to better hear our contributors. We will feature an audio recording of a poem from one of our seven issues, read by the poet and updated every couple of weeks. This an open invitation to all contributors from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to hear it.
We’ve loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), so now we want an opportunity to better hear our contributors. We will feature an audio recording of a poem from one of our seven issues, read by the poet and updated every couple of weeks. This an open invitation to all contributors from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to hear it.
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