Marc Harshman’s travels include the Black Mountains of Wales again and again, Denmark, Iceland, Iceland again, the Isle of Skye, Iceland again, and the mountains of home, again and again. He leads a double life as a poet and children’s book author. Read his most recent collection, Green-Silver and Silent. You can find his work in anthologies or in places like 5 AM, The Georgia Review, and Shenandoah. His eleven children’s books include The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book.
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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