Dave Seter

For the first time children will understand the concept of but the pilot has never landed this rocket. Hello, I am Earth. I am the best planet in the solar system. I want to remind you that you draw the world.

Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall in The Philippines. Recent work has appeared in Adjacent Pineapple, Barzakh Magazine, In Parentheses, and elsewhere.

Neighborhoods are Made of Moving Pieces

Dave Seter

A single Mom eats her son’s unwanted bread crusts. We may call this economy or something else. What does the economist say when Moms economize in other ways, save to send their children to college— —across the ocean—where maple trees drink in water, make sugar—and cast seeds into the wind, whirligig. Trees only seems to stand still with cantilevered arms reaching toward the sun, risking fracture—but— we all travel through our sons and daughters. Where we land? A matter of luck, seeding the family tree.

Dave Seter is the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences, due out from Cherry Grove Collections in 2021. His poems and critical works have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, The Hopper, Raven Chronicles, Palaver, Confluence, and other journals. He has received two Pushcart nominations. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Marin Poetry Center. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and his graduate degree in humanities from Dominican University of California. Born in Chicago, he now lives in Sonoma County, California.