Nicholas Bonarski

Nicholas Bonarski lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, serving the Interventional Cardiology staff for the Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center at Corewell Health in the procurement of equipment, materials, and instruments. When not penning poems, he can be found in an antique shop, or wading through the book section of a Goodwill store.

“Dandelions” and “Elvis”

For years the school bus took the same path
past your grandmother’s house—just uphill from yours

each day the fields flickering past,
sometimes filled with corn,
autumn filled with hay bales