Rain on Sunday
Only if you have a few to spare
he told me as he
boarded the plan out of town.
If it weren’t for those words
I might have fought his life
as one does
a cold,
but this is the way
words can work,
they divert us
from pathways
onto new highways,
& sometimes
directly into
oncoming traffic.
Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Pittsburgh whose writing addresses issues of friendship, masculinity, and gender. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Maudlin House, Sooth Swarm Journal, and Crêpe & Penn amongst others. They are a regular contributor to Headline Poetry & Press.