my first kiss
around here somewhere
ghost pipes
Author: Alexander B. Joy
Alexander B. Joy holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently resides in North Carolina against his will, but hopes to return to his native New England sooner than later.
dating profile
she searches for
her good side
Gettysburg
catbirds at a distance
from the cannon line
expatriate
her adopted tongue’s
word for home
graffiti wall
a passing dog
leaves his mark
the ones saved
for the confessional
war stories
art class notes
the margin doodles
improve by the week
cooling tea
all I believed
I'd do today
editing a line
the cigarette coal's
precarious length
paperback romance
a bend in the spine
at the sultry part
sushi bar
making eye contact
with the koi
remembrance day
the gate clangs
against its lock
old journal
a stranger
to myself
ruined mansion
the gate still stands
but not the fence
vet visit
a couple leaves
with a collar
mistletoe
our kiss lasts
past the doorway
autumn chill
harbor seals
crowd a buoy
damselfly wings
the slant of the sunlight
between leaves
in the apartment
that he never tried to leave
a map of the world
anniversary
roses in a vase
drying together
rainfall
a feather on the pond
changes course