We gathered around the hospital bed in the crowded apartment, solemn and hushed, like if we’d waited and watched the widening crack of a hatching egg, his shut eyes round dark yolks, delicate as a baby bird’s. We circled an inverted cone in the fabric of Being: his last breath. You’d scolded your mother the […]
J. L. Yocum
J. L. Yocum is a musician and poet living in Brooklyn. He holds a B.A. in English Composition, concentration Poetry, from the University of North Texas. His poems have appeared in Albatross, The Orchards Poetry Journal, ionosphere, The Big Windows Review, and The Broken Teacup. More are forthcoming in $ Poetry Is Currency, The Comstock Review, and Pinhole Poetry. His musical endeavors span a few decades and a handful of projects, including work on the soundtrack of at least one award-winning film. He pays the rent working in a fine-art-adjacent industry and splits the bills with his wife and their indolent marmalade tabby.