Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read three poems by Eric Gudas, with art by Summer Wheat, selected by Jozeph Herceg.

End of Summer

Spiderwebs stretch
across my bicycle’s
rusty spokes—no,
they sag,
long since abandoned by their makers.

Lentils for esoteric
uncooked recipes
settle in their plastic bags
at the back of the cabinet.

Well-thumbed mystery novels
pile up by the bed,
obscuring Ovid and Rilke.

The ink of ambitious
to-do lists fades
on the page:
            Learn Latin
            and how to sew on a button

Subjects of unfinished sentences
languish, verbless.

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