The Poem As Lifehack
The Thracian women who dismembered Orpheus in a fit of rage—the original
desperate housewives—did so, Ovid tells us, because Orpheus scorned them. So
bereft at the loss of his beloved Eurydice,
John Estes
John Estes lives in Canton, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at Malone University. He is the author of "Kingdom Come" (C&R Press, 2011) and two chapbooks: "Breakfast with Blake
At the Equinox
At the equinox
the advertised balance
falls short:
my egg sweats,
cannot become its axis,
teeters off its pole.
Not the time
for a man’s kito go
on the blink
—or his