High school students 
with jam-filled donuts. 

A bowl of popcorn 
on a high-backed chair. 

Closing up for work: 
the ring of the ice cream cart, or 

Sunday, early, neighbor 
with a string of trout. 

Here: a four-year-old girl 
spins ecstatically to blues guitar 

before an upturned hat 
and wheelchair. The guitarist 

inhales his own music, 
and her father watches 

from the curb, 
in the shade. 

Nina Lindsay

is a previous contributor to KYSO Flash and the author of two collections of poetry from Sixteen Rivers Press: Because (2016) and Today’s Special Dish (2007). Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, and other journals.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ After Rain, a poem by Nina Lindsay in Cider Press Review (Volume 23-1, April 2021)

⚡ Nina Lindsay at Sixteen Rivers Press (includes numerous resource links)

⚡ When I Was the Moon, a poem in KYSO Flash (Issue 11, Spring 2019)

⚡ To the Evening, a poem in KYSO Flash (Issue 2, Winter 2015)