As dusk unleashes
the ebony bones of night,
sleek chimney swifts
slide home to roost.
Chittering gusts of black
confetti, they flutter,
falling, into the
sleeping
stacks
of the red
brick mill,
that fed
our town.
—
Gary Grossman is Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, and an author of 150+ scientific articles that have been cited over 9800 times. His work appears in 60+ literary reviews and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Gary’s poetry books, Lyrical Years (Kelsay Press, 2023), What I Meant to Say Was… (Impspired Press, 2023) and the graphic memoir My Life in Fish (2023) are available from Amazon.
