My poem, Doo-wop, is in the Winter 2023 issue of the Remington Review. Here is the poem:
Doo-Wop
The temperature dropped
twenty degrees last night.
Trees stood full green—
stunned past blushing,
and on the college lawn
hoarfrost replaced
the sunbathers
who walked the ice-
slicked streets
dressed for summer.
On the corner
four young men huddled
and blew on their hands
as a concession to the cold
like that doo-wop group
that graced the corner
of Hopkinson and Lott
winter and summer
and sang of losing
a love they had not
yet known.
The music often found
an aching harmony,
which like that first love,
they would long for
the rest of their lives.