Nate Logan

There’s Great Anticipation for a Sequel

Got my shirt, got my mug, but I don’t think I’ll ever really be ready.

Stop by Lake Michigan for fudge and to work out the kinks. Then a thorough handwashing. 

I think of an injured seabird when you brush against my hand.

Your powers!

We were rooting for something to make sense.

The masked killer, standing stiff as a board in the middle of the street.

Mikey to his friends.

Extra footage in the TV version gave us occasion to nod at each other.

The trees do not approach the house as we do.

Sitting in a Tree, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I-N-G

The bridge floods in the middle of night. We cross and recross through 1/100th of an inch of water. Your friend Kelsey spits without thinking it through. There’s dark, then there’s pitch and doll eyes. From all trees a choir shuffles. This is an easy metaphor, you say. Cough. And now, the rest of the story. Lake Serene Grocery has closed at 8pm for as long as you can remember. You could grab the lantern from the trunk, but don’t.

Nate Logan is the author of Inside the Golden Days of Missing You (Magic Helicopter Press, 2019). He teaches at Marian University.