ISSUE 4 · SPRING 2010
Copyright © 2010 R. Matthew Burke | Two Evenings R. MATTHEW BURKE Full of seeps from faulty banks, loose water in a rainstorm – we are together. It should be impossible to know on this evening what I know now – but, I catch whispers in the runoff. So, I tell you: “The water hurts my ears,” as if to complain … In another place, I watch an aging mother dangle knuckles over her son. “It’s all a masquerade,” she sez. But, I don’t know – could go either way. |
R. Matthew Burke spends the better part of the year doing trail work. Recently, he graduated Boston College, where he studied continental philosophy. He has been published in An Sionnach, The Unrorean, Existere, Boston College’s Naked Singularity, Stylus, and other journals. He lives in Brooklyn.