This afternoon, I’m going to carry my yellow kayak down to the bay, where I’ll slip it through the fence and slowly down into the water. Then I’ll climb over the fence and down the wall to the barnacle and mussel-sharp rocks, step up to my knees in the sloshing water, and work my way […]
Michael Hettich
Michael Hettich has published over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Frozen Harbor (Red Dragonfly Press, 2017), Systems of Vanishing (University of Tampa, 2014), The Animals Beyond Us (New Rivers, 2011) and Like Happiness (Anhinga, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, Orion, Prairie Schooner, Witness and Poetry East. He presently lives in Miami, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Miami Dade College. His website is michaelhettich.com