by Barrett Warner | Aug 17, 2022 | Galileo Press
Once a book contract is signed, the rush for blurbs is so rushed. Especially for a debut collection. As if the years of creating would still depend on green lights, even after publication. As if each book were a traffic intersection. As if it still needed whistle...
by Galileo Press | May 28, 2022 | Galileo Press
Content Warning: Suicide Originally published at Measure Review In Memory of Jim Simmermanby John Philip Drury “Ever the best of friends,” your letters ended,great expectations for a wave of yearsthat promised more reunions, correspondence.But all that’s over. The...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | May 1, 2022 | Galileo Press
Waiting, one feels timelike space the way one speaks of a tree,meaning not, as here in this yard,the fat trunk of a beech that bulgesbefore its branches beginto branch — meaning rather the loss we hideby counting up: Up, the way the tree grows,or the way we...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Feb 6, 2022 | Galileo Press
There was a knock and then there wasn’t.There was a door and then there wasn’t.There was a knock, a door….I follow your footprints across the wet grass.They lead to a river black as anthracite.And a boat without oars. Sleep is a desert that lets me...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Nov 27, 2021 | Galileo Press
for John and Joe The blue-grey steeples of the pines,the lake’s cold oval: our perception of these shapesmakes us particularly human.Like tourists living on the shoreof what really matters, we can lean backand say “These clouds are marble...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Nov 7, 2021 | Galileo Press
Ok. It’s Halloween. There’s a knock on the door and it’s your lover. Only it’s not your lover, it’s a short, fat kid wanting candy. But he knows your name and it’s not your lover, it’s your best friend. And she’s with...
