There are some things I know for sure: sunlight on bricks, bricks burnt pink and orange, sunlight on the floor bleaching wood, dead moths on the sill, wings divided to crystal wings, month of dust on the glass, cracked window left hanging. “There are always problems” my father says. His cigarette smoke curls around the […]
Matt Cariello
Matt Cariello’s most recent book, The Empty Field, was published in 2022 by Red Moon Press. His first two collections of poems, A Boat That Can Carry Two and Talk were published by Bordighera Press. He’s had stories, poems, haiku, and reviews published in Bennington Review, Voices in Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Ovunque Siamo, Evening Street Review, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, The Long Story, Indiana Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Italian Americana, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Typehouse, Sheila-Na-Gig and The Journal. He’s currently a senior lecturer in the English department at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.