Diagnosis: a Still Life
“A cigarette burn on a bathing nude. / A raven under palm fronds. / What we call a bruise as if / fruit could heal.”
Nicholas Yingling
Nicholas Yingling’s work can be found in Spillway, Notre Dame Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, and others. He received his MA from the University of California Davis and splits his time up and down the Pacific Coast.