Gabriel Patterson (@GabePatterson77) lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV. He escapes the city's neon lights by writing poetry. His work has appeared in hedgerow: a journal of small poems and is forthcoming in cattails, Contemporary Haibun Online and A Hundred Gourds.
the bee sting
of bourbon shots-
grandpa’s hidden whiskey
an ice cream truck
jingles its tune
down a dead end street