David Meischen
The Rest Is Silence
Elwood bends to the corner table, switches on the radio, a soft glow lighting its face as he turns the dial. Watery voices, garbled snippets of song spill into the quiet room. And then, a clear signal, his favorite lyric. A German river, a soldier’s ballad, the lost Fräulein he sings to each night when the stars start to shine. Elwood settles into his listening chair. Overhead, deep beyond his imagining, Sputnik circles, spinning his world toward another brink.
from the moonless dark coyote's mournful cry
About the Author
A Pushcart honoree, David Meischen is the author of Anyone’s Son, winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL). Nopalito, Texas: Stories is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his husband (and co-publisher) Scott Wiggerman.