I woke early this morning, took down the two photo albums that bookended the mantelpiece, and began to cut your image from each of the photos. I planned to bury the remains behind the old shed—where once our tire swing sat. But mom caught me at it and she hasn’t […]
Steve Deutsch
Steve Deutsch is poetry editor of Centered Magazine and is poet in residence at the Bellefonte Art Museum. Steve was nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. His Chapbook, Perhaps You Can, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length books, Persistence of Memory and Going, Going, Gone, were published by Kelsay. Slipping Away was published this spring. Brooklyn was awarded the Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press and has just been published.
I am the younger brother
The envelope arrived today. You penned 969 for 696 and that simple error from a math prodigy Sent the letter drifting homeless for months. I wonder if you did it with intention. The Times published your obituary last month. you died somewhere exotic— Chile, wasn’t it—at a mountaintop observatory where you studied the collision of […]