G Leads by Example
by Laurel Radzieski
Laurel Radzieski is the author of Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018). She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has been a Writer-in-Residence at the Wormfarm Institute. Laurel is a poetry editor for Clockhouse and her work has appeared in Really System, The Golden Key, The Slag Review and elsewhere, including on roadsides in rural Wisconsin. She lives in northeastern Pennsylvania and can be found online at www.laurelradzieski.com.
A boat is a fashionable thing.
You can take it with you to the mall
slung like a hand bag.
G’s boat arrives after midnight.
It is a skin that he slips on to become
cylindrical, flat-faced and cold.