Erik Jonah

Erik Jonah (they/them) has work in Five Points, Foglifter, the Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. A nonbinary writer, they were a finalist for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers and were recently awarded a residency at Mineral School. Erik has taught in the Bronx, in Ohio, and at a school for runaway and homeless youth in Eugene, Oregon.

Poetry – Issue 33

•Coral

Their skeletons / will bleach into a blinding white. / Their skeletons / grind down into the delicate. . . .

Poetry – Issue 30

Laundry Day (by the Sea)

Far off, in pale blue shallows, / the whales give bright, occasional / wisps of spray, or a gray turn / milky on their backs.

Poetry – Issue 30

Little Call of the Squirrel

Quivered in grass, some subtle sign flashes / and squirrels course through my yard, /
suburban blood in circulation or a song / sung sotto voce.