Jonathan Wong-Hayden is from North Carolina and studied creative writing at the University of Southern California where they received the Beau J. Boudreaux Poetry Award and were a poetry editor for Palaver Magazine. They are currently an English teacher in Taiwan through the Fulbright program. Their work is published or forthcoming in Epoch Magazine, The Stonecoast Review, Willow Springs, and Pirene’s Fountain, among others.
When the seats fill up, he shakes everyone’s hand, listens, hears, blesses with no judgement. When the seats empty, he stays seated, removes his collar and gown, stashes them and waits an hour until the banner switches, one more sign:…
