Corey Cook's work has appeared in The Aurorean, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Entelechy International, Northern New England Review, and The Wilderness House Literary Review. New work is forthcoming in The Henniker Review, Pearl and Pemmican. Corey edits The Orange Room Review with his wife, Rachael. They live in New Hampshire with their daughter.
Summer 2008
Table of Contents - Vol. IV, No. 2
Poetry Translations Non-Fiction Fiction Essays
Corey Cook
The Hopkinton/Webster Transfer Station
I turn the blue milk crate over and plastic bottles
spill out – ricocheting and pooling on the cement
floor of the receptacle. He shuffles by as I hurl
crushed cardboard into a separate stall. Wearing
pilled sweatpants and a stained gray sweat shirt.
Sweatpants that ride up and reveal red, swollen
ankles. His stomach sags below his shirt – etched
with veins. He shuffles by, I smile and he hangs
his hooded head. I climb into my car and there he
is in my rearview mirror – a gray cloud scudding
across a blue sky. One of his pockets turned out –
a white flag whipping back and forth in the wind.
© Corey Cook
