Kimberly Glanzman
Poetry
Kimberly Glanzman (she/her) earned her MFA from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Electric Lit, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse, Harpur Palate, Whale Road, and Barely South, among others. Her mini-chapbook, my mother as a lighthouse, my father as the sea, is available from Ghost City Press. She lives on the coast of North Carolina. Follow her on Twitter @glanzman_k.
Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House
sunrise unfastens
the shadows
weighing
on the water. light
leaks between
my toes. the fish
flash, silver-backed,
unafraid
of your fishing
pole, rusted
and forgotten
in an old plastic
bucket. in the cool
of the lake,
my feet float;
the fish come
close enough
to touch. you must
be kinder
to them
now.