Nathan McClain: #NotTrump Series

Nathan McClain: #NotTrump Series

Days After the Election, We Finally Discuss the Weather

some of us discuss it

            some are silent

outside had grown gravely cold

            Freddie retouches with white paint

scuff marks on the bar cabinet the garden wall

            how he pines for the African sun

it never feels like my home here he says

            I want to believe he means climate but I know

it never feels like my home here he says

            how he pines for the African sun

scuff marks on the bar cabinet the garden wall

            Freddie retouches with white paint

outside had grown gravely cold

            some are silent

some of us discuss it


Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), a recipient of scholarships from The Frost Place and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Hunger Mountain, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Southern Humanities Review. He lives in Brooklyn.