Nathan McClain: #NotTrump Series
Days After the Election, We Finally Discuss the Weather
some of us discuss it
some are silent
outside had grown gravely cold
Freddie retouches with white paint
scuff marks on the bar cabinet the garden wall
how he pines for the African sun
it never feels like my home here he says
I want to believe he means climate but I know
it never feels like my home here he says
how he pines for the African sun
scuff marks on the bar cabinet the garden wall
Freddie retouches with white paint
outside had grown gravely cold
some are silent
some of us discuss it
Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), a recipient of scholarships from The Frost Place and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Hunger Mountain, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Southern Humanities Review. He lives in Brooklyn.
