Danny Earl Simmons What If It’s a coyote howl against a Bloody Mary moon; panting awake wet from the shivering ache of a nightmare in which you'd found contentment; a cold stroll in the dark as footsteps not your own gain ground; black-sooted bricks, phallic within the smoky smolder of everything lost; dipping your toe into cobalt blue and hoping for a few moonlit ripples. It’s bumping into her, stammering at the green in her eyes, reminding her of your name.
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and an active member of Albany Civic Theater. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals such as Naugatuck River Review, Off the Coast, Shadow Road Quarterly, Grey Sparrow, and Verse Wisconsin.