when Moses
came across
the burning
bush,
his first
thought
was
fear.
when you
came
across
a burning
country,
your response
was to fan
the flames,
promise
the squirt
gun you spent
four years
fabricating
was the only
extinguishing
option.
Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine and small press. His work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and he is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).
