oh, you thought this was a date?!

Careening towards the apocalypse, we’d be choosy about sitting shotgun next to anyone but a poet. Who else could keep the conversation lively with brimstone on the breath? C. Russell Price, keep that seat open for us, will ya? A Lambda Fellow in poetry, they have been published in the Boston Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Nimrod International.

An Anti-Armageddon Poem

If this is
to be my life:

planting flowers
that will die,

writing love poems
to men who’ll die

I’ll take it
blossom by blossom by blossom.

Reviewed by Matt Sutherland

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