Monday, November 23, 2020

Translation by Jimmy Pappas

The spring
rain

continues to
tap

with nervous
fingers

an urgent
message

of gradual
decay.



Jimmy Pappas, a finalist in the 2017 Rattle Poetry Contest, won the 2018 Readers Choice Award. His book Scream Wounds contains poems based on veterans' stories. He won the 2019 Rattle chapbook contest for Falling Off the Empire State Building. His interview with Tim Green is on Rattlecast #34.

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