“It reached us. It passed us,
totally unimpressed.”
— from “Small Rain”
by Norman MacCaig
storm boughs bucking
far up the cedar trunk
wave like arms of a woman
too busy for fitness, flesh
under raised limbs flapping —
David Zieroth‘s The November Optimist will be published by Gaspereau Press this fall. In 2008 he founded The Alfred Gustav Press, a micro press for publishing poetry.