A Note on a Bad Day

A Note on a Bad Day

David Athey

A leopard’s fang—
light as the light on blood
in the Colosseum—
sends a message
to me, poor me,
drinking coffee
by a golden window
in the easy kingdom.

Understood.

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David Athey
Writer & Poet

David’s poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in over a hundred literary journals and magazines, including Christianity and Literature, The Iowa Review, Relief, Berkeley Fiction Review, The Windhover, Notre Dame Magazine, Dappled Things, Time of Singing, and Harvard Review. Athey teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University and lives on a small lake with large iguanas. His books, including the Florida spoof, Iggy in Paradise, are available at Amazon.

Photography by Sir Simo