Michael Sammons

Mike Sammons writes from the squalor of his basement apartment near the ship channel in Houston, Texas. He writes about horse thieves, brown pelicans, drinking too much, and money. He has published less than a handful of poems in small literary journals.

Harvestmen in the Wood

His grandparents had gotten drunk on Saphire highballs with friends around the fire the night before, and the way they had started acting strangely—grinning and cackling through the evening, their faces gone somehow wicked and distant…