A Brief Incident
spectacled gaze through
window pane
the sense of whats been—
the sound of an engine running
floodlight shows cardboard box
thin featureless clouds—
our analogy our utterance
like a core of blood
or whatever
Samuel Gilpin is a poet living in Portland, OR, who holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which explains why he works as a door-to-door salesman. A Prism Review Poetry Contest winner, he has served as the Poetry Editor of Witness Magazine and Book Review Editor of Interim. A Cleveland State University First Book Award finalist, his work has appeared in various journals and magazines, most recently in The Bombay Gin, Omniverse, and Colorado Review.
