Alec Solomita’s fiction has appeared in the Southwest Review, The Mississippi Review, Southword Journal, and The Drum (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal. His poetry has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, The Galway Review, Bold + Italic, Litbreak, Subterranean Blue Poetry, The Blue Nib, Red Dirt Forum, and elsewhere. His chapbook, “Do Not Forsake Me,” was published in 2017 and is still available at Finishing Line Press and Amazon. His first full-length book of poetry was published last April by Kelsay Press. He’s working on another. He lives in Massachusetts.

Coronary

My heart is breaking. Blue vessels,
make their appointed rounds,
flowing in and out as they have
for half a hundred years or more
yet don’t see the fresh fissures
in their pumping center.

My sorrow grows, new woes
arrive daily, spectres slip
into my thinning brain. Ancient
memories from dark air snap
open my eyes just as I begin
to fall into the early night.

In time, I drift down again for
exactly two and a half dreams
’till another regret swoops from
the bleak crescent moon and wakes me.