Ted Gilley is the author of Bliss and Other Short Stories, published by the University of Nebraska Press, and a book of poems, Come to Me, published by Kelsay Press.
Ted Gilley is the author of Bliss and Other Short Stories, published by the University of Nebraska Press, and a book of poems, Come to Me, published by Kelsay Press.
ANTE MERIDIEM
for Ivy
What I desire in the morning
is the music of guitar, its pottery-dull notes
knocking knees in the lower strings
and in the upper notes a skittering like
the black-capped chickadee that ...