TPCReview Issue 002

Kurtis Ebeling

Gingko

with all their cluttered swaying
the leaves lift   intricate

as scales   and turn together
in the soft way a dress turns

or wild geese   in the wind—
beneath them   a shoe

holding a pair of jade earrings
waits in the shade and grass

Kurtis Ebeling is a writer and educator living in Spokane, Washington. He’s an MA in English and MFA in Creative writing graduate from EWU, a founding coeditor for Croak—a themed lit mag that publishes frog inspired works—and a previous poetry editor for Willow Springs. His poetry has been published with a number of journals, including Art of Nothing PressPictura Journal, The Dewdrop, and Wild Roof Journal. He also has work forthcoming at Crab Creek Review.

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