Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 220
- Language: English
- Date Published: September, 2022
- ISBN: 978-1-953252-66-1
Excerpt
LATE SUMMER
Evening makes way for night,
and outside, the wind
is bringing autumn in from Canada,
the last of the ice-cream trucks
rattles home to Johnston,
ringing its off-key chimes.
The locusts are all gone.
The crickets are still turning
spirals in the inner ear.
Children still go to bed thinking
about the first day of school.
And the world fills with helium,
heading out on its long journey
over the hills, into the cool
sky – weightless now, letting go
the ballast – an enormous yesterday.
Author
Henry Gould, a Minneapolis native, returned to Minnesota in 2015 after 45 years in Rhode Island. His poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in journals such as DiVersos, Poetry, Rain Taxi, Jacket, Notre Dame Review, West Branch, Boston Review, Mudlark, and Critical Flame. Three books have been published : Stone (Copper Beech Press, 1979), Stubborn Grew (Spuyten Duyvil, 2000), and Ravenna Diagram I-III (Dos Madres, 2018-2020). For 10 years he co-edited (with Janet Sullivan) the Rhode Island literary magazine Nedge. He also edited and published the collected poems of poet and translator Edwin Honig (Time & Again : Poems 1940-1997).
