Vincent Czyz

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Death Takes a Misstep

Hooded in black
Death moves through
a purple dream
of unfinished forms
and floating shapes
—a detour he shouldn't have taken.
For she is awake now
and he has disappeared:
gone, wherever dreams go.

Vincent Czyz is the author of a collection of short fiction (winner of the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for Best in Small Press), a novel, a novella, and an essay collection. He is also the recipient of two fiction fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts, the W. Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction (Allan Gurganus judging), and the Capote Fellowship at Rutgers University. His short stories have appeared in Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Tampa Review, Tin House, and Copper Nickel, among other publications. He has placed poetry in The Atlanta Review, Chelsea, and Skidrow Penthouse.