Kevin McLellan is the author of the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series of poems with numerous women poets. He has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Barrow Street, Colorado Review, failbetter, Horse Less Review, the Kenyon Review, Versal, Western Humanities Review, Witness and numerous others. Kevin lives in Cambridge MA with Frankie (a canary), and sometimes teaches poetry workshops at the University of Rhode Island in Providence.
The wind grips with icy teeth and this older man
throws his bicycle out a front door onto the side-
walk as I pass. When I arrive at the Laundromat,
I’m startled by a sleeping man on the floor. And
now as I wait in front of this steamed Cambridge
Street window, a hearse parks in front of me and
I see two shiny rims and my reflection in the just
-waxed black.