by S. Shaw
S. Shaw has been a librarian for an urban, public libraries for 29 years.
His poems have been published in African American Review, Rattle, Split
This Rock, Rhino 2021, Obsidian as well as having a short story in Mighty
Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writing. He is a
Cave Canem Poetry Fellow as well as a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is
the author of the chapbook The House of Men from Glass Lyre Press.
This poem previously appeared in the Potamac Review.