Sam Calhoun

Sam Calhoun is a writer and photographer living in Elkmont, AL. The author of two chapbooks “Apogee” (Origami Poetry Project), “Follow This Creek” (Foothills Publishing), and a collaborative work “The Hemlock Poems” (Present Tense Media), part of the Conservation Through Art: Saving Alabama's Hemlock program and exhibit. His poems have appeared in Pregnant Moon Review, Westward Quarterly, Eratos, Boats Against the Current, and other journals.

Follow him on Instagram @weatherman_sam, or his website, www.weathermansam.com.

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► Sam Calhoun's microchaps & (selected) poems are available below.

	Origami Microchap with Selected Poems
Ephemera
Click title to download micro	Ephemera Leaves scatter-broom in the wind, auroral rays touch sight lines, pressing my face to the bark telling history like the resurrection ferns, or hawks riding thermals, a kite untethered, trailing, starlings long streamers like stars.	Spectators Out at dusk we wild imitators, paddle-drift, brethren beneath Geminids like submarines un-anchored, our eyes periscopes shining from a lake so still so dark. • Sam Calhoun © 2024
Apogee
Click title to download micro Cover: Boardwalk photo taken by author along local trail in Marbut Bend, AL •	Virga once driving home, I missed the rainbow-- but then 100 blackbirds landed in the cool puddle of broken concrete as if they were shot out of that orange jewelweed sky.	Apogee Last night the full moon Streamed, raced away, cirrus over fallow fields waiting to be forgotten. Come spring who lives in the old house? The one with the chimney I cannot see-- Smoke climbs like rose branches, thermals through bones bare of the world settle on the edge of fields, forgotten cotton; advent calendar. --crows dance, the hiss of each passing car-- Is there still room in the dark to howl? • Sam Calhoun © 2023

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