paint on bungalows after the rain synesthesia in a minor key foliage in sharp relief wet macadam collects nests of needles pinecones chewed to eggs red mulch strangles the verge soles of shoes gather the day’s dust kites are shadows above the bridge night and bats ascend […]
Jay Brecker
Jay Brecker works and writes in southern California. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Rattle Poets Respond, Permafrost, Lily Poetry Review, Ocean State Review, The Inflectionist Review, South 85 Journal, I-70 Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. His manuscript, A Ceiling is a Wall Seeking, was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Wheeler Prize for Poetry.