Blake Kilgore is the author of Leviathan, a collection of poems published in 2021. A wanderer, he’s from the South and Midwest and now the Northeast. Kilgore used to be a preacher but walked away to find his faith. He’s been winding his way back now, and love of his wife and four sons is a balm. A junior high basketball coach and teacher, Kilgore is also refreshed by the idealism of his young students. His writing has appeared in Frost Meadow Review, Flint Hills Review, Lunch Ticket, and other fine journals.
“Our child is coming!” your expectant lover might have said, so your red hot-rod baby weaved right and left, always headlong, until you slipped behind someone’s grandmom, or another’s just-beginning firstborn, nervous— more now—and their foot slides over the brake and breaks momentum, and then I see a rancorous waving finger, another hasty swerve just […]
