George Briggs is a high school teacher from Rhode Island. His writing has appeared in Mystic Blue Review and Sports Alcohol.
[
Retrograde
What undertow
the darkened
room?
Pulling moon,
a balloon alit
beside me
celestial ewer
soaking clarity-
I’m sweating. I can’t see.
Judgment arrives
as a child’s fever,
nocturnal, unexpected
compound of dread.
What tide
back drags?
The moon sees.
The moon sees.
]
