Richard Long

Richard Long is Professor Emeritus of English at St. Louis Community College, now retired in Santa Rosa, California. Since 1996, he has edited and published 2River, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. Poems of his have appeared recently in Anti Heroin Chic, Black Coffee Review, Red Wheelbarrow, TravelArtist Hub, and UCity Review.

“Origin,” “Felicity” and “Badwater Basin”

I looked through the window of the dead
bar. Marantha was slow dancing
with the semblance of Rāfe. They were
shape shifting like shadows on a wall—
The barkeep said, ‘Anders, it’s time.
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