Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals. In 2011, his manuscript for his fourth book of poems, After Lunch with Frank O’Hara was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. In 2019 his manuscript, ALEX was a finalist for the Tampa Review Prize. You can find him here.
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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