Thimble Literary Magazine - Vol. 2.4

I wrote “Observations at an Obligatory Dinner Party” back in early January. Now that this piece has found a lovely home in Vol. 2.4 of Thimble Literary Magazine, I’m realizing how much the world has changed in these last three months since the mackerel in this poem first started to work their way onto the page. Dinner parties are currently on a worldwide hold, hopefully to be revived again soon, but in the meantime, they’ll have to remain paused in recollections and passing conversations or in old poems about life not too long ago.