for Jane Smiley Mid-morning it’s still therelike a drawer full of shinycutlery. You take adrive but it follows you,as niggling as a chessset missing a bishop.You sing it to your partnerthinking you can pass it offlike a curse. If it lasts allday it’s yours for life. Friend,it’s always the worst calypso.You’re not gonna hum Mozart.You will learn to live with … [Read more...] about Earworm, By: Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler
About Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 45 books of fiction and poetry. With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.
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