C.E. Chaffin lived in Mexico for three years before moving to the redwood coast of California where he was joined by the ocean, two cats, a dog, and his (editor) wife Kathleen. His newest book, Unexpected Light, is now available , in hardcover. Check out his website if you’re interested in taking a one-on-one poetry class, or browsing his impressive list of e-publications.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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