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Jackie Craven

JACKIE CRAVEN is the author of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018) and a chapbook, Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn, 2016).  Recent poems appear in Agni, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, River Styx, Salamander, and other journals and anthologies. She's worked for many years as a journalist covering architecture, design, and cultural travel.

Clear Skies, Unseasonably Cold
by Jackie Craven

July 21, 2020 Contributed By: Jackie Craven

The day Challenger launched, we watched CNN from the bar at Canaveral Pier. Mist rose   from icy water. Tourists sipped Piña Coladas with pineapple and paper flags. Giddy voices   chanted time in reverse: Twenty-one seconds till liftoff. Or—Did the announcer say   we’re down to twelve? My husband’s lips turned blue in the uncertain morning light. […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 21, 2020

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