“I’m just a lazy person at heart,” my husband said, leaning against the deck railing. The red sun crosses the bridge of his nose. People laugh, they think he’s joking. And the midday sun is hot. Their reaction isn’t wrong— so maybe I want him to sing a new lyric, I want him to say: […]
Josette Akresh-Gonzales
Josette Akresh-Gonzales is the author of "Apocalypse on the Linoleum" (forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Press). Her work has been published in The Southern Review, Atticus Review, JAMA, The Pinch, The Journal, Breakwater Review, PANK, and many other journals. A recent poem has been included in the anthology Choice Words (Haymarket). She co-founded the journal Clarion and was its editor for two years. Josette lives in the Boston area with her husband and two boys and rides her bike to work at a nonprofit medical publisher. You can find her on Twitter @Vivakresh.