Jon Wesick, from Volume 4:2

Jon Wesick is the host of the Gelato Poetry Series, author of the poetry collection Words of Power, Dances of Freedom, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. Wesick has published over three hundred poems in journals such as the Atlanta Review, Pearl, and Slipstream. He has also published nearly a hundred short stories. One was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. One of his poems won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists contest. Another had a link on the Car Talk website. Jon has a Ph.D. in physics and is a longtime student of Buddhism and the martial arts.

Wesick's poem "Bookstore by the Tea Shop," an elegy to the now-defunct Del Mar Book Works, appears on page 56 of latest volume. Below is an excerpt:

The iron laws of economics–
no more browsing before movies,
Henning Mankel,
and Best American Short Stories.
No more
cards with wineglass
and dark triangle of Merlot
between a woman’s thighs.

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Open Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 4:2 today to read Wesick's poem in its entirety!