I’m in a cornfield somewhere in Delaware
and I miss you.
Come pick me up
on the side of this one-lane
country road and
take me back to the mountains.
Even if there’s a drought,
even if
the tide will eventually take us,
even if the wildfires might
engulf everything we ever dreamed of
while we were still young and
couldn’t sleep a wink,
at least we died trying.
That’s all I ever wanted.
Ethan Turner holds a degree in English from Towson University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New Critique, Quadrant, Bullshit Lit, Spirits Arts & Literary Magazine, and Blue Marble Review. He’s also the former social media director of Grub Street Literary Magazine (Volume 71).
