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Matthew McCain is an author and mental health fine artist with 3 of his novels reaching the top #10 on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. His work can be found all around the world from London to Las Vegas with Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer and Alice Cooper’s Teen Youth Rock Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s currently represented by the Bilotta Gallery in Florida.

Breath

by Kevin Griffin

Far enough from the dock
I used to tilt my head
back and up to the clouds
then inhale all the way
in and hold it and close
my eyes and let each foot
become a cement block

and fall into a well
I wasn’t sure was there
until I could feel ache
in my chest like the sky
at night when there’s no moon
and something would quaver
under my skin and then

I’d exhale. I’d chase that
bubbled impermanence
to the surface, reaching
for that gurgled current
of summer air I’d brought
to the brink, air I’d
baptized, I’d energized.

Autho's Bio:

Kevin Griffin is an English and Creative Writing teacher at Detroit Catholic Central High School. He lives in Plymouth, Michigan, with his wife and sons. His first chapbook,Line and Hook,was published by the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. His second chapbook, Note the Tone,was published by Celery City Books. His poetry has appeared inThe Broad River Review, Up North Lit, Sheepshead Review, Common Ground Review, The MacGuffin,andSand Hills Literary Magazine,among other publications.