The Border Pulpit

David Walker was introspective from a young age. His parents often reminisce of long car rides with him in silence, only broken sporadically by the clumsily organized musings of his childlike observations. When they passed a cow grazing in a field, David would mentally dissect the heifer like a butcher-examining the stifle, dewlap, and fetlock until he could render an ill-cut chunk of meat. If he were older, they would have called him a poet. At the time, however, he was simply precocious. David now has a precocious youngster of his own with the love of his life, Caitlin. Fatherhood has happily monopolized his time and his ultimate goal is setting good examples for his son. David's nighttime routine consists of reading A Series of Unfortunate Events to his oft-distracted toddler before rocking him to sleep. Poetry is in his everyday. David currently holds an MFA in Poetry from Southern Connecticut State University. He has been a workshop leader at the Salem Poetry Seminar and the Freshwater Poetry Festival. Many of his poetry and one of his short stories appear online and in print. He has read his work at various venues across the country and is the founding editor of Golden Walkman Magazine, a literary magazine in the form of a podcast.