David Lee Garrison is a retired Wright State University Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. His poetry has been published widely, read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, and featured by Ted Kooser in his blog, American Life in Poetry. He won the Paul Laurence Dunbar Prize in 2009 and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014. His most recent book is Light in the River (Dos Madres Press).
My wife and I share a hospital gurney,trying not to fall off of it,unable to sleep.It’s a Friday nightand there are drunks in the wardall around us, crying out.... Read more.
