Ed Higgins’ poems and short fiction have appeared in numerous print and online journals including: Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, Otoliths, Word Riot, Haibun Today and Blue Print Review, among others.
He is a Professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at George Fox University, south of Portland, Oregon—where he is currently Writer-in-Residence.
Ed and his wife lives on a small farm in Yamhill, Oregon raising an assorted menagerie of critters great and small.
nearing the sun, feather and wax
contrail streak
fa
ll
in
g
A slow dying wisdom
me
lt
in
g
he
splashing
into
the
tossing
blue-green
Mediterranean Sea.
Thessaloniki Summer Visit
What
I learned
one summer
in the North East
Thessaloniki heat was
the blue, brown eyes
& spicy mezé thighs
of their young women
were of equivalent heat.
And oh their sighs–
their nubile starlit
sighs–those are sung
to a laiko &
rebetiko beat.
Feeling hotly
Thessalonikian still
I could ride again
that humid-hot
Aegean mise-en-scene
smooth as a heat wave’s
softly rising thought.
Dido
Where does it go
when the heart flees
falls into regret’s
turbulent sea?
What holds the ribs’
shape steady
around such emptiness?
What resists
the pounding dive
into darker
waves still?
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