I’m always thrilled to have a poem at Rust & Moth, which has one of the most reader-friendly presentations of any litmag out there. This poem is called “Splitscreen: Skatepark” and attempts to capture some of the sweat and grit of the local skatepark on a fine summer’s day. I spent my teenage years in such places, and the scene drawn in the poem is largely a composite of those languid afternoons, including one more recent episode viewed from my current perspective as an adult skateboarder that prompted the poem itself. For those keeping score, it’s a sonnet written in rhyming couplets.

read it at Rust & Moth

If you like skateboarding poems, I have a few more at Loch Raven Review.