Snapping turtles don’t frequent houses of worship. Instead, in my childhood town, late spring, they’d bring church traffic to a standstill, crawling into the middle of the road to Blessed Sacrament. Then they’d freeze there, perhaps defiant, confused, or simply oblivious to blaring horns and muttered curses. Some men would stay far back and poke […]
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan is a Ph.D. mathematician. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rattle (finalist in the 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize competition), Valparaiso Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, The Atlanta Review, The National Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, Rust & Moth, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. Three of his prose poems have been chosen to appear in Fantastic Imaginary Creatures, an anthology of contemporary prose poetry due out by Madville Publishing in spring 2024.