Gerry Sloan

Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His collections are Paper Lanterns (2011) and Crossings: A Memoir in Verse (2017). Recent work appears in Sierra Nevada Review, Tar River Poetry, Slant, and Mid/South Sonnets.

“Falling Dreams,” “Brushstrokes,” and “Mozart’s Starling”

are the worst, often perched
on a ledge at the edge
of a mountainside,
the danger palpable…
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