For Davey G. Johnson You—fast as a shark, who wanted it way, way too loud— you were incandescent, a flame-kissed tear in a Sierra Nevada wind forty degrees Fahrenheit and dropping. but you climbed California State Route 49 in sun-soaked plastic, an aluminum trellis, to search and destroy atop nine hundred ninety-eight cubic centimeters of […]
Blake Z. Rong
Blake Z. Rong is a writer in Brooklyn with an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His debut collection of poetry, I Am Not Young And I Will Die With This Car In My Garage, was published in 2021. His work has appeared in Vagabond City, Isele, SLANT, New Mexico Review, and others. He is a finalist in Oprelle’s "2021 Matter" Anthology Poetry Contest. He hails from central Massachusetts and lives with a cow cat named Moose.