Jefferson Navicky

Condition of the Air

In the dream, she exclaimed, we’re having a baby! She waited for a reply, but there wasn’t one. The silence meant no. I’m sitting in the office, alone, before class. Evening is coming down. I’m hungry and children’s voices break through the window from the school next door. Cars cruise by at speeds too fast […]

Uncle Barber

My uncle is a barber. He cuts hair with a pair of chopsticks. People don’t know the difference. It’s like he’s tossing a salad, or, for short hair, like he’s checking for lice. Sometimes he makes buzzing noises with his mouth for the sound of the clippers. He says to his customers, close your eyes, […]

Jefferson Navicky

Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago, and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He is the author of the collection Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (Deerbrook Editions, 2021), as well as the poetry chapbooks Uses of a Library and Map of the Second Person. He is also author of a poetic novella, […]