Poetry by Scott Dalgarno
it’s May and he’s working ahead of the summer wildfires ahead of june bugs ahead of palm trees springing up in Alaska ahead of the next insurrection ahead of a mile-wide asteroid ahead of the Big One in California ahead of the little one his fiancée is expecting ahead of his first heart attack and the Second Coming ahead of Memorial Day which will be his last since on the next the woman he will never marry will come to the cemetery early with their baby in order to trim the grass around his marker with kitchen scissors, a shallow marker that will say he lived gently, left hardly a mark
Scott Dalgarno counts himself fortunate to have seen his poems in APR, The Yale Review, The Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Pilgrimage Magazine, America, Cagibi, and The Oregonian. His poem “Small Pleasures” placed second in the 2024 Oregon Poetry Association Prose Poem contest. His volume, Third-Class Relics, was a finalist for the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award and will be published by MoonPath Press in 2025. He lives among firs and dogwoods near Portland, Oregon, where he works for the resistance.