On a Balcony
A bumblebee thuds
against the beige gutter. Twice.
Below, I don’t laugh.
I tilt my hat to cover my eyes.
Brandon North is a working-class, disabled, and multi-genre writer from Ohio. He is the author of the chapbook From The Pages of Every Book (Ghost City Press), and his poems and prose appear or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Annulet, The Cleveland Review of Books, Bridge (Chicago), and elsewhere. Find him @brandonenorth and theappreciator.substack.com.