{"id":14634,"date":"2023-06-21T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=14634"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:18:08","slug":"tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2023\/06\/21\/tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 9.9v-7H7.9V12h2.5V9.8c0-2.5 1.5-3.9 3.8-3.9 1.1 0 2.2.2 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streetlight<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">coming down<br>in fat wet flakes.<br>It\u2019s an inch thick<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">on the road, and no one\u2019s<br>driven this way yet.<br>Sirens are whining<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">and so far from me<br>that they\u2019re soft as birdsong.<br>The blue light<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">of my neighbor\u2019s television<br>is playing<br>off his curtains.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">I imagine him<br>finally able to sleep<br>because the sound of a sitcom<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">reminds his resting mind<br>that everything<br>is all right.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">I don\u2019t think<br>I\u2019ll be able to sleep<br>as well as he is tonight.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\"><strong>John Brantingham<\/strong> was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks\u2019 first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, <em>Writers Almanac<\/em> and <em>The Best Small Fictions 2016 <\/em>and<em> 2022<\/em>. He has nineteen books of poetry, nonfiction and fiction including <em>Life: Orange to Pear, Kitkitdizzi<\/em> and <em>Days of Recent Divorce<\/em>. He is the founder and general editor of <em>The Journal of Radical Wonder<\/em>. He lives in Jamestown, New York.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2023\/06\/21\/sagittarius-a\/\">Next<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight John Brantingham __________ It\u2019s 2ambefore I noticethe snow in the streetlight coming downin fat wet flakes.It\u2019s an inch thick on the road, and no one\u2019sdriven this way yet.Sirens are whining and so far from methat they\u2019re soft as birdsong.The blue light of my neighbor\u2019s televisionis playingoff his curtains. 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