Mark Kerstetter

Mark Kerstetter steals time away from restoring an old house in Florida to write poems and make art out of wood salvaged from demolition sites. His poems have appeared in Evergreen Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Connotation Press and other journals. Check out MarkTKerstetter.wordpress.com.

"Is It Too Soon?," "The Birthing," and "A Chaos of Lust, a Pawned Guitar"

What an experiment it was!
            But the art of improv is lost
            for drum and fife
            the song of sparrows swamped
            by the sound of goose-step

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