Bio

Ron Scully is a retired bookseller. After a lifetime on the road, an original Willie Loman only funnier, he has repaired to the foothills of the White Mountains to refashion his field sales reports into an Odyssey, a crown of sonnets, or a haiku or two whichever comes first. He was scheduled to publish two chapbooks in 2020, Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds and Darlington Braves, from Atrium Books, but then the world changed. He is also working on a play and a sports literature anthology.

death
check

passed pawn
on the fifth

listen the flag drops

the pawn phalanx goosesteps upboard

the escape square catches the rank and file of last breaths

time and sound suddenly deadlock's        unforeseen pawn en passant        swallow hard your heart's hole