Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch (C&R Press), and her second book, Sexy Fish, is due out from Cornerstone Press in 2027. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Pleiades, Willow Springs, Phoebe, Prairie Schooner, Jet Fuel Review, Pinch, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor of Moon City Review, and featured work can be found at saraburge.com.
In the quarkiest parts of my body baseball is played / never played. I itch all summer to place / never place a hot dog against my tongue, for fireworks to vibrate and explode / never explode and kill / feed the silence of the infinite space above home plate. I smell like stadiums closing. In all my locker rooms,… Read more →