adopting heroic dreams

Adopting Heroic Dreams

In asbestos gloves and oxygen tank,
I snatched a girl from a smoldering cot
last night, lay her on my shoulder, and thanked
her for coming. “You’ve been through a lot,”
I said. “I can’t wait for you to meet her.
She’s been going nuts to have a sister.”

Dave Engeldrum

Dave Engeldrum has won the HR Hays Poetry Prize from Confrontation (twice) andthe Fiction Prize from Inkwell. He’s also beenpublished in Caesura, Alehouse, New Plains Review, The Southampton Review, Gander Press Review, Ampersand Review, andothers. He lives on the East End of Long Island with his wife and two daughters and teaches at Suffolk Community College and Stony Brook University.