The consistent
consumer light
from the Circle K
that summer.
A mirage among
the sleeping suburb.
Zombie-like
worker.
Refrigerator
hummer.
The back wall
title text
cheap soda
happiness guarantee,
like broadcasting
palm trees
on a green screen.
Back out to
the parking lot
below the
practically perfect
Circle Moon
Source: The author, 2023
Convenient Corner was first published in Echolocation, vol. 20, March 2023. Convenient Corner was inspired by the Circle K on Thorold Stone Road, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Cole McInerney is a poet from Niagara Falls, Ontario. He studied English at Toronto Metropolitan University. Currently, he is a MFA student at the University of South Carolina, studying poetry. His poems have been published in several print and online publications, including Feral Poetry, White Wall Review, The Bookends Review, and Echolocation Magazine.
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See all of Cole McInerney’s poems on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website:
• The Buildings of the Dream
• Convenient Corner
• Lake Erie
• Russell Street
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