The summer of ’87, lush greens giving way to sand dunes along the highway, beachgrass fingers coaxing us forward in the breeze. I’m crammed in the station wagon’s wood-paneled womb, Neil Diamond’s crooning become a drone, the live cassette long since stuck, listening over and over to whale songs of a future morn, thanking the […]
M. Benjamin Thorne
M. Benjamin Thorne is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Rogue Agent, Feral, Gyroscope Review, Molecule, and Red Eft Review. He lives and sometimes sleeps in Charlotte, NC.