“I Was Reading a Poem” by David Rutschman (fiction, ’02)

A short piece by David Rutschman (fiction, ’02) appears in The Sun:

I Was Reading a Poem

I was reading a poem by Ryōkan about a leaf, and how it showed the front and the back as it fell, and I wanted to call someone — my wife, my brother — to tell about the poem.

[. . . continue reading here.]