BURT REYNOLDS

I once turned around on the Florida Turnpike
and drove all the way to Pompano Beach  

to see if I could meet and maybe get an autograph
from Burt Reynolds.

Turns out the radio commercial said something
about boat rentals.

Though I had the day off I was not interested
in spending it at sea.

Norman Minnick is the author of three collections of poetry and editor of several anthologies. Most recently, he is the editor of The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight, which has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems and essays have been published in The Georgia Review, The Sun, World Literature Today, The Writer’s Chronicle, Oxford American, and New World Writing, among others. Visit www.buzzminnick.com for more information.