Aaron Lelito is a writer and editor from Buffalo, NY. His micro-chapbook, Secret Meetings, was published by Ghost City Press in 2025, and his poetry collection, The Half Turn, was published in 2023. His work has also appeared in Sage Magazine, Tough Poets Review, Door Is A Jar, Barzakh, Santa Fe Review, Blood Tree Literature, and Tiny Wren’s Anthology: Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility. He is Editor in Chief of Wild Roof Journal. Instagram: @aaronlelito
Extraordinary things can flourish in pondwater, in my stagnation where festering scum glows green. Coursing the perimeter my feet catch dust half-heartedly getting somewhere implausible and balled up. When there’s nowhere else to deflect the loss of clean water and no avoiding the neon algae spreading from the shore then my self-inquiry is self-elision is the risk of not saying… Read more →