In the glaze of evening, more air between us than talk. I choose raspberry tea, pour deep pink into a glass cup, ask questions about whatever she speaks of. I push the air of conversation back to her, an invisible volley that people love. Smudged figures wander the background in not-yet twilight. […]
Aliesa Zoecklein
Aliesa Zoecklein’s chapbook At Each Moment, Air won the Peter Meinke Poetry Prize and was published by YellowJacket Press. Aliesa also has poems published in River Heron Review, About Place, Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She taught writing at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida for twenty-five years. She lives with her wife in Gainesville where she writes, gardens, and studies Spanish.