Gary Metras
Gary Metras is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Two of his seven books of poems were published in 2018: White Storm (Presa Press) and Captive in the Here (Cervena Barva Press). His poems have appeared in such journals as America, English Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Poetry, Poetry East, and Poetry Salzburg Review.
The children stay home from school
often now. Homework never complete.
They have grown silent. Whenever they
talk, it is said, they only speak about
colors missing from the rainbow.