S. Thomas Summers is a teacher of literature and writing at Wayne Hills High School in Wayne, NJ and an English professor at Passaic County Community College in Wanaque, NJ. He is the author of two chapbooks: Death Settled Well and Rather, It Should Shine. Summers’s poetry has also appeared in 2River View, The Pedestal Magazine, and Triggerfish Critical Review. His poem, A Fall from Grace won the IBPC 2009 poem of the year. Visit him where he breathes and blogs.
All work
I believe in lurking, in weaving through shadow /
near gingerbread houses where chubby children /
stain their faces with fudge and candied yams. …
Most likely, you’re drawn to this poem because it sits /
neatly on a page: two shoes napping in a shoebox, a pair /
of bricks content to know only each other. …
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