Autumn Rain
by Karen Head
Sounds like applause —
not the kind you hear
center-stage, crowds roaring,
but the same sound
as it ricochets off the bricks
that separate the theatre
and the bar next door
where you sit alone
waiting for someone,
or something, not coming.
Karen Head has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis in creative writing. Currently she is the Writing Program Coordinator in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Head's first poetry collection, Shadow Boxes, was published by All Nations Press in 2003 and her second collection, Sassing, is due in 2009 from WordTech Editions. Her poems have been published in The Women's Review of Books, New Millennium Writings, The Southeast Review, War, Literature, & the Arts, and Prairie Schooner among other journals as well as several anthologies.