Tanka Journal poet

Thomas Locicero

2 poems in Issue 6

In their own words

Thomas Locicero’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Roanoke Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Long Island Quarterly, The Good Men Project, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Jazz Cigarette, Quail Bell Magazine, Antarctica Journal, Rat’s Ass Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Hobart, Ponder Review, vox poetica, Poetry Pacific, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, Indigo Lit, Saw Palm, Fine Lines, New Thoreau Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, Clockwise Cat, Snapdragon, felan, The Ghazal Page, and Red Savina Review, among other journals. He lives in Broken Arrow, OK.

She pocks the damp airReading Braille in the dewdropsHer palm slipperyReaching for the lightning strikeIt ricochets off her hand
She taps the batonThe orchestra straightens upHer posture perfectShe makes a frantic motionAngels play the instruments