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On your toes!

Fighting stance!

Period.

We have always desired too much

a morning

without shipwrecks.

The day may pound away at us.

Our blood may boil.

Don´t you realize?

That same combative sun

desires to caress you?

Let´s make a bridge—

not out of gold, or copper or steel—

but of wood.

Get to work—-hammer and nails.

We carry on our shoulders

the fear of trembling love.

How heavy it weighs!

Shall we cross?

Bio:

Biography: JK Miller is a former third grade dual language teacher. He lives on the edge of cornfields. He started submitting for publication in 2025. He is the first place winner in the modern sonnet category of the 2025 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest. His chapbook Bicycling Poems was published in October, 2025. A second chapbook, Rye & I was published in January, 2026.  His poems have also been recently published, or will be, in shoegaze literary, Midsummer Dream House, Harrow House, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, THEMA, Rat’s Ass Review, 50-Word Stories, Verse-Virtual, Paratextos, Amethyst Review, The Poetry Lighthouse, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Up North Lit,  Eunoia Review, Borderless, As Surely as the Sun, ANTAE, Plato’s Caves, Tap Into Poetry, 20:05, The Soliloquist, The Metaworker, Press Pause Press, The Rush, and The Five-Two. In the summer of 2025 he rode his bicycle from his home to his son’s house to see his newborn grandson. It was 1,335 miles.