NEW CHRISTMAS POETRY

The Christmas I got Abbey Road
I also got my first typewriter.
I knew then only that something
was supposed to happen. I sat
near the fire all day.

COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Lunch Ticket, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 45 books of fiction and poetry.  With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.