Justin Kramer Hare




The storm having ended,

    the tree limbs

hang closer to the earth,

    yielding to

the damp that lingers on

among the leaves, and all

the sheltering creatures

    emerge—

exhale the dampened air.





J Kramer Hare is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he lives and writes. When not reading or writing he enjoys rock climbing and listening to jazz. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jerry Jazz Musician, Untenured, Quibble Lit, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Clackamas Literary Review, the Oakland Review, and elsewhere. He can be found at kramerpoetry.com.