Poetry by Steve Passey

                           Jaroslav A. Polák CC



It’s Coming

Listen, 
I like you and I want to tell you 
that good things are coming to you.
I can think of two recent suicides, 
men who hung themselves in the garages 
and sheds of the places they rented 
and they hung until they fell 
because no one came to look for them 
until their rent was one week late.
There is an animal dead on the road 
and unrecognizable, 
run over again and again and again 
but its soul can only fly once and yes,
all souls can only fly once, 
so truthfully 
I think that good things are coming to you 
and all of us that wait.

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Steve Passey is originally from Southern Alberta. He is the author of the short-story collections "Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock" (Tortoise Books, 2017), "Cemetery Blackbirds" (Secret History Books, 2020), the novella "Starseed" (Seventh Terrace), and many other individual things. He is a Pushcart and best of the Net Nominee and is part of the Editorial Collective at The Black Dog Review.

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