K. Goodkin

The Secret Lives of Vending Machines

the braceville baseball diamond

has seen better days

downed powerlines, timid

watch redwing blackbirds

in roadside horsetail moat

stubbleblond cornghosts in scarred fields

every tree is significant

last resting place for kitebones

full of possum gossip late at night

what goes on deep in limb's pocketjoint

on a curb in dwight, il

a thin limbed girl in striped shorts

conspires with a battered battery powered radio

to make me the midwest's latest victim

Among other things, K. Goodkin enjoys reading, writing, and talking about reading and writing. She likes raising questions but gets anxious when she has to answer them. K.'s work has previously appeared in Fourteen Hills. She lives in Chicago.