MATT ROGERS

FALL/WINTER 2022 ISSUE #05 POET

Matt Rogers is a poet and photographer from Long Beach, California, where he was born and currently resides after spending a few years in the Sacramento Valley. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Open Ceilings, Emerson Review, and Great Lakes Review.

LATITUDE

Heading southwest, a sudden thunderstorm
swallows the sun.

A chilly aftershock rustles through the grass,
though the earth lies dry and unmoving.

Circling overhead, a kettle of turkey vultures
tracks its next feast.

They disappear from view moving east,
where the gibbous moon waxes in endless blue sky.