ingrid swanberg

Ingrid Swanberg is the editor and publisher of the Ghost Pony Press poetry book series, and is the editor-in-chief of ABRAXAS Magazine. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals, anthologies, and chapbooks since 1967.

suburban

I walked my loneliness home

under the roar and fiery roil of stars

crickets sang the night deep gold

alone alone

I read the dew-gathered asphalt runes

illumined by streetlights

and the wan, desirous moon

you were somewhere

alive in the world

walking at night

hearing the song

Ingrid Swanberg circa 1980