When The Sun Is Bright

Nathan Dragon

I will probably drown in my own pool, middle aged.

If I even have a pool.

On some sunny morning.

After breakfast.

When I can’t finish what you couldn’t.

So we should remember

to eat light from now on,

and

to avoid places with pools.

Nathan Dragon has been published in Noon Annual, Hotel, Fence and New York Tyrant. Nathan co-runs the publishing project Blue Arrangements with Raegan Bird.