Poetry ~ Dr. Jim Brosnan 1. Unanticipated On a winter evening sleet switches to whirling flakes of heavy snow as I approach Davenport. Barely visible in the swirling blanket, colorful neon signs glow from roadside hotels and an endless stretch of chain restaurants. I pass Thunder Bay Grill, turn into the parking lot of the Hotel Blackhawk, the Impala’s headlights caked in an icy mask, the windshield frozen in the shape of a half-moon. Over mounds of drifted snow I retreat inside the lobby to escape darkness on I-80. 2. I Can’t Explain Past midnight the pale porchlight still flickers as my imagination listens to our chatter-- the metallic echo of falling coins tumbling on cobblestone. I watch our shadows on a starlit avenue in a Davenport suburb until the vowels dissolve in the dusk under the same gray sky where talk and dreams disappear daily. Dr. Jim Brosnan, full professor of English at Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI, placed second in NEATE’s 2010 Poet of the Year competition. Jim has published four chapbooks of poetry and over 450 poems which have appeared in the Aurorean, Mad Poet’s Review, The Leaflet, The Bridge, The Teacher As Writer, and Voices of the Poppies Anthology (UK). Jim has won five awards in the National Federation of Poetry Societies competition. His first poetry collection, Nameless Roads, received a silver medal in a national contest. Jim was awarded a university fellowship for his second collection, West of the Mississippi.
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