Originally published in the Summer 2025 issue of the SDL Review, available in print on Amazon. Also available in eBook form on Kindle.
east to princeton
Leland Seese
cicadas sizzle
in branches
of white ashes
full throttle
miniature maracas
bugs in heat
jersey drivers
buzz jug handles
fly around
the roundabouts
we’re not in
seattle anymore
still newlyweds
we live for fun
full throttle in
our honda civic
weekends
down the shore
speeding toward
degree and graduation
marveling
at cardinals
fireflies
thunder’s
dark
seduction
Meet Leland Seese
Leland Seese lives in Seattle, Washington. His poems appear in Frontier Poetry, The Chestnut Review, RHINO, The Stonecoast Review, and many other journals.
From his website:
The poems gathered here comprise efforts to express a lifelong fascination with story, and a hope of aligning formal theological training with a number of mystical experiences. I locate them in the events of my life as a member of families intact and dispersed, foster, adoptive, and biological; as an intrepid fan of baseball; and as one who catches glimpses of the numinous in all these things. My wife and I, and our six children, live in Seattle.
Read more Leland Seese poetry featured in The SDL Review — Summer 2025
At Katy’s – Leland Seese
Martin – Leland Seese
