Elissa Gordon

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July

Boys dragged
baseball bats
behind them
on the brown grass,
sun glinting
off the metal
in a wink;
they forgot
they had begged
for summer.

Elissa Gordon's poetry mines a childhood spent in New York and New England and a passion for travel and foreign langauge. She has appeared in anthologies of Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets, Windmills (Australia), Offline, and The Stillwater Review, and upcoming in New Sun Rising -Stories for Japan, with proceeds going to benefit the March 11 Tsunami victims, and The Edison Review 2012. She has appeared online in The Poem Factory/The Word Place and Short, Fast & Deadly.