Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels’s fourth collection of short stories, Trigger Man, is due out this fall, and he is the writer and producer of the independent film Mr. Pleasant (www.mrpleasantmovie.com). His poems have won the Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Poetry. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their two children.
At Sixty-Five
This morning I fell back / into deep snow / and dug myself into a snow angel. / Yeah. I didn’t tell anyone. I mean, / c’mon, right?
July 2022Eternal Moment Of Running Wicked Fast
We run so fast these letters should be slanted, fastest at dusk when our breaths burn hot coals, sweat soaking our T-shirts, sneakers slapping pavement
February 2017Heat Of Departure
Ninety degrees of thick, rude heat — a summer guest / we can’t get rid of — hovering over our city, / our brick house. Yet our son, who’s leaving home / tomorrow, we wish would stay.
June 2013Last Night I Drove My Son Home
from his friend’s house, where they were filming / a movie starring my son in a love triangle. / My son, fifteen, has never been in a love right angle, / or even a love straight line, as far as I know.
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