Tim Applegate

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Reading Basho
By the Koi Pond
On an Autumn Afternoon

As I finish my second—or
was that my third?—cup of sake,
I turn the page and

a bee
staggers out
of the peony

Tim Applegate's poems, short fiction, and essays appear in The Florida Review, The South Dakota Review, Lake Effect, and Rhino, among many other journals and anthologies. He is the author of three poetry collections--At the End of Day, Drydock, and Blueprints--and two novels, Fever Tree and Flamingo Lane (forthcoming from Amberjack Publishing in 2019). He lives in western Oregon.