C.E. Chaffin
edited and published The Melic Review for eight years. Widely published on the net and more narrowly in print, he has been the featured poet in over 20 literary magazines, most recently in Tryst (Summer 2004).
He’s also appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Rattle, The Cortland Review, The Pedestal, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. His first book of poems, Elementary, was published in 1997 by Mellen Press.
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Outing
Not all were old.
A young man in a motorized chair
waved at the sea with arms
like bent paper clips.
From his seatback
a Barney kite flew.
When the hot dogs were ready
those who could
grabbed their wheel rims
only to discover
the damp turf resisted.
They would need help—
no matter, they were used to it.
Besides, the sun-drenched grass
was so much brighter
than fluorescent halls
and the ocean air so much
sweeter than urine.
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