Joris Soeding |
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The February Editor's Pick Poet is Joris Soeding Please feel free to email Joris at: heartbybridge@gmail.com |
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CIRCLES with wife and son he returns home after twenty-seven years everything takes him to the train tracks can’t ward off that tunnel with his brother three of them trapped behind flames of a black ’55 Chevy today they’re his students, history class, seniors they need him and the one that scrambled THE BÊTE NOIRE PROGRESSION three friends reacquainted at the funeral of the fourth OSKAR AND ELI Mimicking his bully, he asks the tree in snow to squeal at the pool they call for him, declining stairs in the courtyard at night he begins a Rubik’s Cube she returns it, early and solved band-aid to cheek, he tells mom that he fell on a rock at recess he introduces Morse code to her on lake’s ice he hits the leader in the ear he treads the pool, spitting water repeatedly, playful |
Joris Soeding’s third chapbook, In Between the Places Where Night Falls, will be published by Lummox Press in 2015. His poems have appeared in publications such as Columbia Poetry Review, Concho River Review, MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review, San Pedro River Review, Spillway, The Prose-Poem Project. “Circles” and “Oskar and Eli” were first published by Thirteen Myna Birds. “The Bête Noire Progression” was first published by Belle Rêve Literary Journal. Joris is a 5th/6th grade writing teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, and daughter.
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