Poem of the Week | Wabash Banner Blue by Bill Ratner
Wabash Banner Blue
by Bill Ratner
Listen to Bill Ratner reading Wabash Banner Blue
A night of trees and winds
mangled sparrows
a dreamless sleep
a shutter opens
nursing in brumal air …
Bill Ratner is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slams, a Poets & Writers Readings Grant recipient, his spoken-word performances are featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers, his poems, essays, and stories are published in The Chiron Review, The Baltimore Review, Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast, Pleiades, KYSO Flash, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review Audio Contest, and other journals. Bill is the voice of “Flint” in the G.I. Joe/Action Force TV cartoon and “Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3. More info at http://billratner.com/author • @billratner