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Pretzels
by
Damon Hubbs
eight yrs old &
hawking pretzels
on the corner of
Aldine St
for his father, The
Roofer
pretzels the watchword
for tickets
to Newark’s
East Ward street races,
The Roofer the guy
who fixes those races
father liked a straight
shot
never drive a crooked
road, he’d say
little good it did
he ended up touge
like sourdough in
a trash
compactor in Little
Rhody
Damon Hubbs: film & art lover / pie bird collector / author of the
chapbook The Day Sharks Walk on Land (Alien Buddha Press). His second
chapbook, Charm of Difference, is forthcoming in 2024 (Back Room
Poetry). Recent poems have been featured in South Broadway Press, Lothlorien
Poetry Journal, Fixator Press, Otoliths, Apocalypse
Confidential, and Book of Matches. He lives in New
England. @damon_hubs
KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s played
oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving, and studied Middle Eastern
dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized
teacher of calculus. Her creative efforts have
been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net
in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart
Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once
for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s
had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for several literary
journals. Channie’s latest book is Eternal not Ephemeral, Eternal not Ephemeral: Greenberg,
KJ Hannah: 9798852494016: Amazon.com: Books, a collection of fifty tales, including "Absinthe
for Aliens," "Isabelle," "Transitory Unease," and "Special Teeth," which were originally published in Yellow Mama or Black Petals.
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