Mantis 22 (Summer 2024)
eccentric/eclectic/electric/ekphrastic
Steve Gerson
Love sounds like
Love sounds
in my chest as
lightning
a tuning fork thrum
like the sky
through my fingertips
along piano keys
reverberating and
beyond thought
synapses exploding into
the quiet hum of
echoing birdsongs
STEVE GERSON, Emeritus English Professor, writes poetry and flash about life’s dissonance. He has published in CafeLit, Panoplyzine, Crack the Spine, Decadent Review, Vermilion, In Parentheses, Wingless Dreamer, Big Bend Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell, and more, plus his chapbooks Once Planed Straight; Viral; And the Land Dreams Darkly; and The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety from Spartan Press.