The doctor comes in the room and pulls the paper out of the EKG machine I wait for his expression to unfold I wait for my rhythm to return to normal he is silent for too long meanwhile, I think about seismographs during an earthquake how the wavy lines jump all over the place how […]
Connie Post
Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore, California (2005-2009). Her work has appeared in Calyx, Cutthroat, River Styx, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, & Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her awards include the Crab Creek Poetry Prize, Liakoura Award, and the Caesura Poetry Award. Her second full length book, Prime Meridian, was released in January 2020 (Glass Lyre Press) and was a finalist for the 2020 Best Book Awards. Her most recent books are Between Twilight from New York Quarterly Books and Broken Metronome from Glass Lyre Press. Broken Metronome was the winner of the American Fiction Award and NYC Big book award for a poetry chapbook.