Just mid-February
but a day like summer
A florist truck at the lights
Doors
Beatles
C’mon man gimme a break
Guy shakes his pursed lips slow
C’mon man still shakes no
A man in a suit
but a Yankees cap
Park Avenue tossing
One perfect orange
Up,
And again
The first
Splitfingerfastball
of this new spring.
Jay Lee Ellis grew up between Dallas and East Texas, playing drums from age eleven in stock shows, shopping malls, and VFW halls. After Berklee College of Music, he earned graduate degrees in writing and literature at UT Dallas and NYU, publishing three scholarly books, including No Place for Home on Cormac McCarthy. Creative work has appeared in journals such as Litro and Razor Lit Mag, where he won the Open Fiction contest. He teaches writing at CU Boulder. Still occasionally playing jazz, he has performed at New York’s Knitting Factory and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. See www.jayleeellis.com for more.
