Michael Boccardo lives in High Point, NC. His poems have been published in The Bitter Oleander, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, Kakalak, Poet Lore, and Eclipse.
Early evening, a man and a woman sit inside a room the size of a heartbeat, the walls lit like honey. He is leaning into his own shadow, elbows balanced on knees, thumbing through the [...]