The quiet is too great, precious city. Each day seems New Year’s morning where unneeded traffic lights blink as Hopperesque streets endure fog until sun brings the afternoon’s pastel glow. Commerce absent, the golden promise dwindles as parks fill with the fragile and destitute. A ceaseless hangover, testimony to disease not celebration, endures. There […]
Ralph Long Jr.
Ralph J. Long Jr. is the author of two chapbooks, Polaroids at a Yard Sale (Main Street Rag Press, 2021) and A Democracy Divided (Poetry Box, 2018). His work has appeared in the anthology Ambrosia: A Conversation About Food; Common Ground Review, Humble Pie, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Scriblerus, Ursa Minor, Zingara Poetry Review and other journals. He lives in Oakland California.