Corresponding by thumbs
in the middle of the night.
Stayed up for a few hours.
Finley woke me
just in time to miss the bus.
Spill a coffee on my front seat.
Drop him off at school.
Roll in – hair messy and
I’m wearing a Grateful
Dead T-shirt. Go to class …
*Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Gerald Arthur Moore is an adventurer, a part-time university lecturer, and a high school teacher in Moncton, New Brunswick. He is the author of the play Just Another School Shooting (available through Heartland Plays Inc.) and the poetry collection Shatter the Glass, Shards of Flame (NON-Publishing, 2018). He received the Pub House Books Chapbook Prize in 2019 for Trigger Fingers.