Monday, May 18, 2020

a new hobby. By Jonathan K. Rice



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 RagPlum 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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