The Fiddleback

Back to top Staring at our neighbor’s lawn as though
tomorrow’s enough, & voices
on the web blah-blah everything’s all
right so long as our best self shows Monday—




              The neighbor rides his mower, sun or rain,
              each blade-length cropped the same.








How will we arrive where we’ve never been
when the road paved is so many wrong turns,
head-on collisions & we’re still here
by the luck of the fall, the sheer sheer of it all—








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Born in Boston, Chris Siteman grew up in a blue collar, predominantly Irish-Catholic, family. He’s traveled widely in the US and Europe, and worked extensively in the trades. In 2007 Chris received his MFA from Emerson College. Since August of 2010 he’s been pursuing his JD at Suffolk Law. He has taught in Boston University’s undergraduate writing program, Lesley University’s Humanities Department, and currently teaches in Suffolk University’s English Department. His work has most recently appeared in Ditch Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, The Monarch Review, BlazeVOX and Consequence Magazine.

 

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