Jason Clemmons

Jason Clemmons, Tar Heel poet and long-time university administrator, has works published or forthcoming in Slippery Elm, Wingless Dreamer Publisher, and Fifth Wheel Press. His writing reflects his experience as a gay man in the US South, often touching on themes of memory, family, and resiliency. Jason lives in central North Carolina with his husband, Peter.

brunswick county: nautical twilight

the land drifts into
dark pangaea, there is no
distinguishing

between silhouette
and fields of dead stars
the farm is quiet

she’s been growing
a glioblastoma
the size of a bridge

waving me across
homecoming the only
treatment she’ll agree to

where the gravel ends
the tobacco barn
remains

leaning hard
the gravity of ghosts
curing within