How Far Down the River? by Gary S. Rosin

No sé medir la distancia / entre el final de esta línea / y el final de mi vida, 13 “River the Line” series, Frontexto 163-24, by Octavio Quintanilla (USA) contemporary

How Far Down the River?
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A bullet
starts its own line,
tries to join
 
heart line and life line,
measure with your blood
 
the distance between.

Gary S. Rosin 

Gary S. Rosin is a Contributing Editor of MacQueen’s Quinterly. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Chaos Dive Reunion (Mutabilis Press 2023), Concho River Review, contemporary haibun, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Senior Class: Poems on Aging (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024/2025), Texas Poetry Assignment, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. Two of his ekphrastic poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). He has two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing 1990), and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum 2008). His poems have nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and for Best of the Net.