DIFFUSION
by Kevin McLellan
outside the closed post
office / rain and the on-
lookers in hooded slickers
/ you don’t recognize
them at first / neighbors /
in the throat of caught
light you say I’m in a mood
/ dash off / ever since
the water table rose the
first time / this awareness /
refuse yourself immersion
/ now in a local café you
notice the crosswalk / the
electric seconds count
down / the pavement bleeds
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Kevin McLellan is the author of the full-length collection of
poetry, Tributary (Barrow Street); the chapbook Round Trip
(Seven Kitchens), a collaborative series with numerous women
poets; and the book arts project, [box] (Letter [r] Press). The
chapbook Shoes on a wire (Split Oak Press) is forthcoming.
McLellan won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize, and his poems
have previously appeared in American Letters & Commentary,
Apple Valley Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon
Review, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, Witness,
and several other literary journals. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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outside the closed post
office / rain and the on-
lookers in hooded slickers
/ you don’t recognize
them at first / neighbors /
in the throat of caught
light you say I’m in a mood
/ dash off / ever since
the water table rose the
first time / this awareness /
refuse yourself immersion
/ now in a local café you
notice the crosswalk / the
electric seconds count
down / the pavement bleeds
_____________________________________________________
Kevin McLellan is the author of the full-length collection of
poetry, Tributary (Barrow Street); the chapbook Round Trip
(Seven Kitchens), a collaborative series with numerous women
poets; and the book arts project, [box] (Letter [r] Press). The
chapbook Shoes on a wire (Split Oak Press) is forthcoming.
McLellan won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize, and his poems
have previously appeared in American Letters & Commentary,
Apple Valley Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon
Review, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, Witness,
and several other literary journals. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
◄ Previous page Apple Valley Review, Spring 2016 Next page ►
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Apple Valley Review:
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 11, Number 1
(Spring 2016)
Copyright © 2016
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 11, Number 1
(Spring 2016)
Copyright © 2016
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
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