Some Friday night, it might be worth a try: after a glass or two of French, a page or more of some ambitious book, let go into the couch. When you wake up, lights on, at 3 am, not sure just where, or who you are, assume you’ve died, a ghost, for the first time, […]
David Landon
David Landon
David Landon was the winner of the 2019 Write Prize from Able Muse. His poems have appeared in the Cumberland River Review, The Dark Horse, The Southwest Review (Marr Prize Runner-up), Georgia Review (featured finalist: Loraine Williams Prize), Think Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Subtropics, American Journal of Poetry, Southern Poetry Review (Guy Owen Prize finalist), Poetry Porch, and elsewhere. As an actor he has performed with the […]
David Landon: Bach, Onomatopoeia, and the Wreck
For all we knew, it was a random chunk of interstellar rock, the rear-end crash that brought us to a halt. Dinner was out, of course, and the Bach too, I realized, feeling it in my neck, and standing there in the rain, examining my totaled car, the guilty driver soaked, in tears. The cops […]