she likes cigars,
top shelf rum
likes sitting at a bar
listening to old men
talk about Cuba,
the music, food
coffee, Hemingway
no one cares anymore
nobody leaves
why risk the Florida Straits
to settle in Miami
when you can just as easily
live and die in Havana
Jonathan K. Rice edited Iodine Poetry Journal for seventeen years. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Killing Time (2015), Ukulele and Other Poems (2006) and a chapbook, Shooting Pool with a Cellist (2003), all published by Main Street Rag Publishing. He is also a visual artist. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Abbey, Amethyst Review, As It Ought To Be, Diaphanous, Eunoia Review, Gargoyle, Grey Sparrow, Harbor Review Magazine, Inflectionist Review, The Main Street Rag, Plum Tree Tavern, San Pedro River Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Trailer Park Quarterly and the anthologies, Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race and The Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina.
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