by Steven Deutsch
Early sun surprises. Eyes like ground glass and my hand asleep on the keyboard. Remember the summer before working papers at your uncle’s bungalow colony. The murky lake and an old woven basket for a basketball hoop. Bare chested days that lasted for weeks and cares no more worrisome then a stoved middle finger. Ah, for a time machine— I can’t help thinking, as I shake my hand and rub my eyes. Fedex at ten. ___ Steve Deutsch is poetry editor of Centered Magazine and is poet in residence at the Bellefonte Art Museum. Steve was nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. His Chapbook, Perhaps You Can, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length books, Persistence of Memory and Going, Going, Gone, were published by Kelsay. Slipping Away will be published this spring. Brooklyn was awarded the Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press and will also be published this spring.