(for Eric Norris)
imagined spring –
I stare out the window
at infectious blooms
…………..
Mark Ward is the author of the chapbooks Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020) as well as the full-length collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2022). He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry.