Corey Mesler‘s work has been published in many journals and anthologies. In addition to a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose, he has also published eight novels, four full-length poetry collections, and three books of short stories. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems were chosen for The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Mesler lives in Memphis, where he is the co-owner (with his wife, Cheryl Mesler) of Burke’s Book Store. “Return Key” is an excerpt from his newest poetry collection, The Catastrophe of My Personality.
Return Key
I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.
Copyright (c) 2014 by Corey Mesler. All rights reserved. Mesler will read from and sign copies of The Catastrophe of My Personality at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on May 1, 2014, at 5:30 p.m.
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