New Poetry by Ron Riekki

Walking the Streets of Croix After Our Argument

There are a thousand bars.

I could get drunk,

so drunk

that I’d become a fossil.

I’d be a dinosaur.

I’d drink myself

to the Big Bang,

before we ever met,

before anyone ever met,

before anything ever happened,

and I’d be drunk there,

stupid

and young

in an alley,

fighting

to remember you.

- Ron Riekki 2015

Ron Riekki's books include U.P.: a novel, The Way North (Wayne State University Press, chosen by the Library of Michigan as a 2014 Michigan Notable Book), and Here: Women Writing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press, May 2015, http://msupress.org/books/book/?id=50-1D0-3479#.VKZ4kmTF-PU).