Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro Cuban Folkloric music for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies. Recent writing in MockingHeart Review, Awkward Mermaid, Ink In Thirds, Third Wednesday, Uppagus, After the Pause, Rosette Maleficarum, Chrome Baby, Former Cactus and many others.In 2017 he was nominated for both The Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.
REUNION
The way things end,
people dying before their time.
When I saw you last
could have been on the basketball court,
curly hair dribbling to the hoop.
I hadn’t consciously thought of you
until I saw the list in remembrance,
spoke to a former classmate who said
you drowned over thirty years ago
in the Yuba river.
So many years have gone since then
with no one to answer for them.