Today’s #CapsuleCollective highlight: #MichaelColonnese is the #author of a hard-boiled detective novel, Sex and Death, I Suppose, and two #poetry collections, Temporary Agency and Double Feature. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Hendersonville, North Carolina.

His #poem “Cold House” is published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation, now available in paperback and ebook. Buy your copy here: http://capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition

I’m burning pine slabs—
bark and rot. The last
oak quarter rounds my pile holds
I’ll hoard till nightfall.
Earlier, I burned my poems.
A sodden Sunday, late December.

—“Cold House” by #MichaelColonnese, published in Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation. Featuring poetry and prose, #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition explores the theme #Hibernation. These stories and #poems ruminate on hunkering down for the #winter and resting. Buy your copy: http://capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition/