The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop is delighted to announce that Gregory Crosby, a member of our Executive Board, has a stunning new poem, “A Volta,” featured on Nevada Public Radio.  Crosby writes:

A Volta

The old man folded his newspaper
& asked, “Can God make a prison so
secure even He can’t break out of it?”
Well, what do you think the universe is?
We’re all on the yard together; only
some of us, those who thirst & grasp after
power, labor under the impression
that we’re the guards. A little bird flew by,
too fast to identify. The coffee
cooled past the point of no return… unless
you asked the waitress for a warm-up.
There’s always a point of return; it’s just
that you may not be the one to turn back, to
twist your head to catch one last glimpse of grace.

Read “A Volta,” on Nevada Public Radio here.

Gregory Crosby is a member of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Executive Board and the author of the chapbooks Spooky Action at a Distance (2014, The Operating System) and the forthcoming The Book of Thirteen (2016, Sylph Press); his poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Court Green, Epiphany, Copper Nickel, Leveler, Sink Review, Ping Pong, & Rattle. He teaches creative writing at Lehman College, City University of New York.  You can follow him on Twitter here.