Bio

Don Magin has retired from careers as a research chemist and as a science and math teacher, but the jobs he looks back on with special pride have been father, grandfather, coach, scout leader, homework tutor and Santa Claus. He and Margaret, his wife of 53 years, live in Bon Air, Virginia. He has had stories and poems published in Grand Magazine, Guide Magazine, Short Humour, Central Virginia Poetry Bard Magazine, Microhorror, Flashes in the Dark, Necrotic Tissue, The Shine Journal, Sylvia, and other online and print publications.

Not
one
tree still
standing up.
Hurricane's upshot.
Tipped and tangled and demolished.
Thor's puny playthings.
Once mighty
oak trees,
now
scrap.