Michael Miller – Medium

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Professor

Her office hours, after her eightieth birthday, moved to a bench overlooking the shore, she goes without hello when the students hover by…

2 min readMar 31, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Birth

This is the rush of days in fast forward, a soundless churn of steam on the kettle, the sun snared in a mobile making kaleidoscopes on the…

1 min readMar 24, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Last Date Before the Proposal

This is the quiet negotiation, the laying of terms, the unspoken drawing of the boundary between two sides that will be reached across but…

1 min readMar 17, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

A Defense of Amateur Sleuthing

After “Why True Crime Calls to Women,” Megan Abbott, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2018

2 min readMar 10, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Child Shrieking Over a Burst Balloon

Oh, do not call it immature. Call it only unprotected — the buffers that you and I survive by not yet reasoned, for him, into their right…

1 min readMar 3, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Singer on River Street, Savannah, Georgia

With a few words, did you place her in the front row? Her eyes, raw from elsewhere, beg your attention. Perched apart from the rest, she is…

2 min readFeb 25, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Armistice

The general came to casino row last night, blessing the boats with his trigger finger and signing peace to the riverside, starry-eyed…

2 min readFeb 18, 2024

--

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Welcome Week

by Michael Miller

2 min readFeb 11, 2024

--

Welcome Week

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Blues Man

by Michael Miller

2 min readFeb 4, 2024

--

Blues Man

--

Michael Miller
in
The Journal of Radical Wonder

City Night

by Michael Miller

2 min readJan 28, 2024

--

City Night

--

Michael Miller

Michael Miller

Michael Miller is the co-founder of Moon Tide Press, the author of five books of poetry, and a former entertainment journalist for the Los Angeles Times.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams