Tomorrow knocks again
So patiently
Carrying the pain of her children
And asking us to let her in
For she is a solitary traveler
With only one door to try
D.W. White is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and Stony Brook University’s BookEnds Fellowship. Currently seeking representation for his first novel, he serves as Founding Editor for L’Esprit Literary Review and Fiction and Excerpts Editor for West Trade Review, where he also contributes reviews and critical essays. His writing further appears in or is forthcoming from The Florida Review, The Review of UnContemporary Fiction, The Rupture, Necessary Fiction, Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere. A Chicago ex-pat, he now lives in Long Beach, California, where he frequents the beach to hide from writer’s block. He is on Twitter @dwhitethewriter.