My mother planted marigolds along the pathway to our front door. Their orange and yellow frills lit my steps, even in daylight. Our house was hemmed in by the auto body shop next door. Its junk yard loomed, overgrown with weeds— hulking storage containers left rusting like fossils from some prehistoric period. The shop revved […]
Joel Bush
Joel Bush reads things. He also writes things. Well, sometimes he reads the things he writes. That tends to help. He is the winner of the 2021 CSUF Earth Day Poetry Contest, and his work has been featured in Meniscus, Poetry Super Highway, and Quibble Lit.