Sparrow by Corey Mesler

The nights are long. I
comfort myself with this:
I have survived many.

Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 20 books of fiction and poetry.  With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.