DONOVAN HUFNAGLE

Donovan Hufnagle is a husband, a father of three, and a professor of English and Humanities. He moved from Southern California to Prescott, Arizona to Fort Worth, Texas. He has three poetry collections: The Sunshine Special is “part personal narrative, epic poem, and historical artifact;” Shoebox is based on true events and is an epistolary, poetic narrative about Juliana’s “past and present, love and lack, in language that startles;” and 30 Days of 19 uses inverted Haiku poems juxtaposed to Trump tweets, capturing the first thirty days of the Covid 19 quarantine. Other recent writings have appeared in Tempered Runes Press, Poetry Box, Beyond Words, Wingless Dreamer, Subprimal Poetry Art, Americana Popular Culture Magazine, Shufpoetry, Kitty Litter Press, Carbon Culture, Amarillo Bay, Borderlands, Tattoo Highway, The New York Quarterly, Rougarou, and others.

Website: donovanhufnagle.com

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TATTOO PARLOR

I think there 

are no great things 

in the world anymore 

until I see a neon sign’s reflection 

vibrate off the storefront window. 

What a great thing. I think, 

what a great thing to show 

up blue and uninvited 

then welcomed by the shimmer 

of hope and glow,

hot and pink. 

Read more of Donovan’s work in Solum Journal Volume I.