Tomorrow is last. Unless. Until.
Next day brings a tourist’s freedom
Next day brings a tourist’s freedom
to wander boulevards,
gathering ghostly tchotchkes.
The postcards say Deathville,
keychains stamped with names
like Death. The snow globes
scatter glitter over graveyards.
Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.
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