Tom Snarsky

Tom Snarsky wrote the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), and the full-length poetry collections Light-Up Swan & Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in 2025. MOUNTEBANK is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2026. He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats.

SPRING FORMULA by Tom Snarsky

I notice some crocodile cracking near the bend, which is already pitched the wrong way—against the turn, so as a car’s tires point left the road’s normal force pushes it right, recipe for a rollover—and think somebody’s going to get killed. So I go to the municipal office to complain, but no one’s there. BE BACK SOON says the sign. So I grab one of the envelopes and start to write on it, just right on the envelope, my name is Ryan Pendleton I live at 29 Keep Tryst Rd in the Hermitage and someone’s going to get hurt and…

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