Skip to main content

Author Archives: James King

 About James King

James King’s poetry has appeared in The Dillydoun Review, The Thieving Magpie, OpenDoor Poetry Magazine, Oddville Press, Big City Lit, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Crowstep Poetry Journal, BarBar Magazine, The Lake Poetry Journal, Journal of Expressive Writing, Months to Years, The Ekphrastic Review, and Dipity Literary Review. He is the author of the award-winning novel Bill Warrington’s Last Chance and Extenuating Circumstances (forthcoming). A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with an MA in Writing from Manhattanville University, he lives in Wilton, Connecticut.

Koans

/

My son gave me a book
of koans,
as if parenting a son isn’t
confusing enough,

San Francisco Sestina

/

Moods shift when the fog
building by the gate to the bay
decides enough, it’s time to begin
the slow seep through hilly streets
at dusk and even the steady hum
of cable under California changes.

Turns

/

Two routes out of Nikko take forty-eight
hairpin turns to reach
its lake-in-the-mountains destination.
The bus will be full.

Pokhara

/

he sun commands the lake to dance.
Blue, green, and rubber-ducky yellow
columns shoot up through pinprick stars.