from a broken thermometer on the Doctor’s office floor as a kid I tried to pick up all those years ago and they split rolling away into smaller spheres while Dr. George explained metastasis to Mom as he examined her breasts through a blue gown, and she asked where did it go, and I said under the exam table out of reach.
Don Narkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Poetry appears in The Trillium, Agape, Blue Collar Review, Dappled Things. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry, After the Lynching. In 2024, The Potomac Playmakers produced From Birth. In 2025, the author won the Ziolkowski Poetry Prize.