By Jesse Wolfe H-O-R-S Tuesdays—dad’s day—when mom worked late at the hospital, he collected us from school for lazy rounds of HORSE. Sun crept behind the garage, we slipped on sweaters, shots clanged off the rim. Games dragged on when leaders failed to clench their wins. One dangled me in no-man’s-land, H-O-R-S by myself. Dad, … Continue reading H-O-R-S and Other Poems
Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Exeunt Your spiteful smile— flashing in the doorway— etched itself as if my memory were metal plate. Ambiguous carving— there is time to decipher it, but not endless time. Lightning flashes, illuminating you. Then darkness. Metal man, tin-thin, I am unassailable, but the imprint’s part of me: glancing behind your shoulder, hair half-veiling your … Continue reading Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Academy of the Heart And Mind 