James Best

JAMES BEST {[email protected]} is a recent graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program. His writing has appeared or is upcoming in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, RATTLE, Slipstream, and The South Carolina Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Valerie, and Moonlight Graham, their terminally ill bonsai.

Our First Home Has Forgotten Us

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2

All our dinner smells have long since mixed with the wind.
Our voices echoed down these halls receding
by halves with every reverb
till even now, if our ears were small enough,
we might hear them tumble back to us
softer than dandelion fur.

Contingency #4: White Out

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2

If you get snowed in, locked into your home
so long the food runs out,
I suggest peeling the walls to find the mice,
or scouring the attics for nests, for beehives.