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Zebulon Huset

The Beach Bum and the Midwestern Freshman

by Zebulon Huset

January 2021

From the start
it was a gingerbread house.

Or a sand castle
just before the tide.

We refused to leave
despite warnings

like Missouri rednecks
on the Mississippi.

Everyone knew the inevitable.
A slow erosion

of the base,
grains slipping away

with each swish of water
and before the ebb

we were always expecting,
crumble.


Zebulon Huset  is a teacher, writer, and photographer living in San Diego. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest, and his writing has appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Atlanta Review, and Texas Review, among others. He publishes the writing blog Notebooking Daily, edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked, and recommends literary journals at TheSubmissionWizard.com.

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