Angela Ball
Summer 2025 | Poetry
I Was a Cool Customer
butter wouldn’t melt
on my bulbous nerve endings
oh man I was the spontaneity
of ha the nonexistent leg joints
of an apiary you wouldn’t believe
my demeanor I was feline
sleeping apparel and lament
I was the highest
yellow fruit
Angela Ball’s 7th book of poetry, Steeplechase, is forthcoming in spring of 2026. She teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she lives with her dogs, Miss Bishop and Boy.