Amy Small-McKinney’s second full-length book, Walking Toward Cranes, won the Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have been translated into Korean and Romanian. Her third full-length book & You Think It Ends is forthcoming 2025 (Glass Lyre Press).
One man dug into the last seat
as though to disappear
& I didn’t know my husband was dying
Lovers returned to conversation
left mid-sentence and who
was real...
