“slanted autumn light” By Steve Brisendine

slanted autumn light

(a glance up
from letter-writing)

the heart-shaped
birthmark 
on her left cheek

Steve Brisendine – writer, poet, occasional artist, recovering journalist – lives and works in Mission, Kansas. His most recent collections are Salt Holds No Secret But This (Spartan Press, 2022) and To Dance with Cassiopeia and Die (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), a “collaboration” with his former pen name of Stephen Clay Dearborn. His work has appeared in Modern Haiku, Flint Hills Review, Connecticut River Review and other journals and anthologies. Write to him at steve.brisendine@live.com.