Issue Twenty-Three - Winter 2014

Polamalu Fan Club

By Catherine Simpson

A circle of sandwiches and half-smoked cigars--
	Friday night dinner with the 
Polamalu Fan Club. The playing cards are all
	Worn on the edges, and the 
Snow outside percusses with that brushed jazz
	Sound: ss-sst-sst-sss….
Pittsburgh in the winter, and the neighbor is 
	Shouting at her kids
		Again.

Copyright 2014 Simpson

Catherine Simpson is a cellist who lives in Santa Barbara. She has been previously published in Big River Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, Spectrum, Step Away Magazine, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Poydras Review and Splash of Red.

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