Keith Leonard
Keith Leonard is the author of the poetry collection Ramshackle Ode (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). His poems appear in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Program, Verse Daily, and Copper Nickel. Keith has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Indiana University, where he earned an MFA. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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Neighbor Sweeping His Porch
He sweeps, and gray plumes of pollen cloud waist-high behind him. My neighbor sweeps the porch as slowly as a gondolier rows at sunset. His tie is loose at the neck but still fastened to his shirt by a clip. At the edge of the porch, he sweeps in quick spurts like a telemarketer before […]