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.

Listen, time passes

Listen, time passes.
I loved a girl I might have dreamt
We made love in her small office,
how fast the time came and went.

I relished her frank eager grace
for what seemed like easy minutes.
But time as always was out of place
and ten years passed while she waited

for me to leave the other.
Time curdles patience
and now she’s slipped her tether
as she ought, and time has changed its measure.