Jason Tandon
Phone Call, Tuesday Evening
Outside, a three-quarter moon
snagged in winter’s
black branches, and I whisper without shoes
or jacket, In his sleep?
Mid-forties?
Perfect health and a family?
Inside, there is a call
to dinner, and the banging of spoons
against rims of stainless steel pots.
There are bowls of buttery noodles
ladled with a brown mushroom sauce.
Jason Tandon reads “Phone Call, Tuesday Evening”
Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is a master lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.