He’d been shopped around to every prom and bat-mitzvah. No fear of the date who’d gab only about himself, ’67 Mustangs, or screwing. No way he’d dump you by the punchbowl for skinny Mary-Kay, no shouting matches over The Beatles’ break-up. Didn’t matter if you were fat, cratered with acne, varicose-veined. Prompt to your door, […]
Alexandra Burack
Alexandra Burack, author of the chapbook, On the Verge, has published ekphrastic and other poems recently in The Ekphrastic Review, Pangyrus, Metphrastics, ucity review, and The Sewanee Review, among other venues. She serves as a Poetry Editor for Iron Oak Editions and Poetry is Currency, and a Poetry Reader for The Los Angeles Review, The Adroit Journal, and West Trade Review/Trill. A retired college creative writing professor, she works currently as a freelance editor, writing coach, and tutor. Her website is: https://www.alexandraburack.com.