To think that two friends would try to kill
one another. And yet, we sat there,
reading and watching as the fires
grew. The tailed fox screaming in the night.
Morning dew came, however and the
same can be said of our adulthood.

Patrick Key started writing seriously later in life, thanks to the help of a poetry class during his undergraduate years. His works have appeared in The Amethyst Review, The Corner Club Press, The Penwood Review, and Argus. He is also the founding editor of Grand Little Things.