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By Michael Lyle the man who never pays attention weeps the councilman who wants me gone scribbles in the bulletin margins while his wife holds a Bible between her face and mine a woman beside her nodding husband studies me like a child might an ice cream cone I mention evil, and heads turn to follow a wasp’s perambulations in winter’s dim-lit nave the elderly usher by the door hands a bulletin to the buzz-cut man in a black duster who threatened the secretary Friday afternoon Michael Lyle is the author of the poetry chapbook The Everywhere of Light (Plan B Press), and his poems have appeared widely, including Atlanta Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Crannóg, The Hollins Critic, Mudfish and Poetry East. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Michael's other work on Foreshadow: Wick of the Soul (Poetry, October 2022) Tennis Players (Poetry, October 2022) Yahweh (Poetry, October 2022) Family of God (Poetry, October 2022) "Carvered" for Christmas (Non-fiction, December 2022)
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