by Charles J. March III
Normal Elegy
31 01 2019, Madrid Spain
The bell tower rang at 9pm in Detroit
the night the bullfighter died, mothers woke
and instructed their children to mourn.
By Tuesday, the note tied to the back of a pigeon arrives
at the cattle rancher’s porch
pleading him to raise less aggressive sires.
The channel flows at an unnoticeably
slower pace, the cobblestones don’t weather at all,
and a child two towns over wakes
his mother and asks for a piano.
Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House 2021) winner of the Autumn House Publishing chapbook contest. His work can be future found or ignored in Copper Nickel, Pleiades, The Penn Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, among others. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California Irvine and the Associate Editor of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Find him @phlat_soda.
Charles J. March III is a person currently living in California. His works are in or are forthcoming from Evergreen Review, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, 3:AM Magazine, BlazeVOX, Expat Press, Points in Case, Sensitive Skin, Taco Bell Quarterly, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Maudlin House, Misery Tourism, Litro, Otoliths, etc. More can be found at LinkedIn & SoundCloud.