Kyle Potvin

Kyle Potvin’s chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her poems appear in Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Tar River Poetry, and the New York Times. She is an advisor to Frost Farm Poetry and helps produce the New Hampshire Poetry Festival. *

Poetry – Issue 28

•Fireball

At eight years old, I dodged the sisters’ eyes:
I ate my lunch, then donned a saintly face,
walked out the gate, past church and up the rise
toward Horn’s Variety, that mythic place.
The path was new to me. I walked alone