it was the unexpectedness of our music
the way the stars withdrew
when i walked you to the subway
the city hissed in time
Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor at BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review). His short stories, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published in N + 1, Mississippi Review, Salon, Antioch Review, Houston Literary Review, Westchester Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus, Pank, Word Riot, Moon Milk Review, Fogged Clarity, and other places. He is the author of four books in philosophy and an epistolary novel with Susan Tepper, What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G, (Cervana Barva Press). He just completed his second novel, Leaving Telluride, set in Telluride, Colorado.