Can you also smell / honeysuckle and taste the earth drying out, / the hot asphalt and brown river? See how the ants rush / from their colonies to pick apart the honeybee?
Author Archives: Matthew Wimberely
Matthew Wimberley grew up in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. He is the author of the chapbook “Snake Mountain Almanac” from Seven Kitchens Press. Winner of the Asheville Poetry Review’s 2015 William Matthews Prize, his work has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, The Greensboro Review, as the poem of the week at The Missouri Review, Narrative, Orion, Poet-Lore, Verse Daily and elsewhere.