Sunday Morning

Derek Pollard

Outside—cold Michigan. Oak room, waxen, light. Ten of us, mid–size, including two beveled ends on either side. Along the carpet, against the floorboards, slivered patterns of our shoeless feet. We dream the dream of escaping ourselves, the loneliness of children we have wrapped into one another, younger only by “the sun inside the house,” that same longing of our sisters to say, “Here, the sun never sunned so much, did it?” And it did. But before. And again after.

Derek Pollard is co-author with Derek Henderson of the book Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX 2010). His poems, creative non-fiction, and reviews appear in American Book Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Diagram III, H_ngm_n, Pleiades, and Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, among numerous other anthologies and journals. He is an assistant editor at Barrow Street, Inc., and is on faculty at Pratt Institute and at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, New York.