Tipton Poetry Journal
Geyer's Onion (Allium geyeri) Martin Willitts Jr you do not cry when it is cut fresh although it reminds you of our stillborn it simmers & tears are not possible you have cried yourself raw already the flowers pink inner tips remind you of a baby's fingers closed tight the onion is white & pale as snuffles it is endangered this information causes a cascade a shower of onions tiny as a baby's coffin
Martin Willitts Jr is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, NY. He has been nominated for 15 Pushcarts and 12 Best of the Net Awards. He is the winner of 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; 2014 Broadsided award; 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Award; and, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2015, Editor’s Choice. He has over 20 chapbooks, plus 11 full-length collections including How to Be Silent�(FutureCycle Press, 2016). His poems have appeared in Blue Fifth Review, Kentucky Review, Perfume River Review, Bitter Oleander, Tipton Poetry Journal, Nine Mile Magazine, Comstock Review, Centrifugal Eye, Stone Canoe, and others.
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