Marc Swan

Marc Swan lives on the coast of Maine. Poems recently published in Gargoyle, Nerve Cowboy Anthology, Misfit, The Nashwaak Review, among others. His fifth collection, all it would take, was published in 2020 by tall-lighthouse (UK). In 2018, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions published today can take your breath away.

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Another World

Before the trees were felled,
temperatures rose, floods and fires
swept over wild, and not so wild
land, on school break I would run
through the overgrown grass
behind our house on Nowlan Road
to the water tank enveloped
in a dense grove of evergreens
searching for arrowheads, following
the scat and tracks of deer
then high stepping through a field
of goldenrod, legs pumping, breath
huffing, eyes wide on clouds floating
on the horizon, then slide down
a thickly wooded hill over rotted
branches and leaves, jump a small
creek, cross Crocker Hill Road
and knock on the back door
of my friend Chuck Barnes
who had a rickety chicken coop
where we’d spend warm summer
nights on old Army cots talking
girls, cars, places we want to see
as we listen to the cicada rhapsody.