Peter Swanson lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He has recently been published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Lyric, Measure, Unsplendid, and The Vocabula Review. His book reviews can be found on popmatters.com.
The Lesson
And one by one
Miss Robinson
had all the class
stop singing
until she came
to only me:
alone, abashed, off-key,
my heart a racing metronome
