It was a long time since my parents tucked me in at night and kissed me. But it was a long time too since I counted not sheep (what did I know about sheep?) but carlights passing over the ceiling, and until I was ten I slept alone. Then my brother got afraid and my … Continue reading That’s What You Call
a Baby Whale?
by Adam Penna
When I went out into the shed to find the shears my father had sent me to find, I also found the dark of sheds, a more significant shear, and stepped into it the way you might wade into a pool at night, not afraid entirely but cautious unless you step on something sharp, … Continue reading The Dark of Sheds, by Adam Penna
Adam Penna’s first full-length collection, Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji, was published in 2010 by S4N Books. The Love of a Sleeper, a chapbook, was published two years before by Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared in magazines like Albatross, Cimarron Review, Basilica Review, Nimrod, The Same and others. A sonnet published in the … Continue reading Adam Penna
