“The Last Sign,” by Charles Baxter

Fiction faculty member Charles Baxter was recently featured in the LEON Literary Review. Read an excerpt of Baxter’s poem “The Last Sign” below:

The Last Sign

A weekend drive: and we got lost just west
Of Waconia, near the lake whose name you couldn’t
Pronounce, though we knew it sounded like “Whisby” or
“Wherby,” and around then, cresting over a hill
We came to a green stretch of somebody’s farm,
The grass so saturated it might have been boiled
In paint, and you said, behind the wheel, “What
Have they done with the signs?” and sure
Enough, someone or something had taken down
The mileage marker to town X, also the name of the river
Over whose chuckling rivulets we were now crossing…

Read this poem in its entirety here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-12-charles-baxter-2/