Sam Barbee
Parallel Lines
Afraid to meet your eyes, quietly
I tick down the newspaper’s icy headlines
alarmed at the warnings what happens
when lives cross, passions diverge,
when fear sends you reeling
through another’s eyes.
Sam Barbee has a new collection, Uncommon Book of Prayer (2021, Main Street Rag). His collection, That Rain We Needed (2016, Press 53), was nominated for Roanoke-Chowan Award, one of North Carolina’s best 2016 collections.