Ride at Woodside, by Jed Myers

Woodside Amusement Park…in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…
constructed in 1897 by the Fairmount Park Transportation
Company…continued operations until 1955.  

                                                                                   —Wikipedia 

Jed Myers is the author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), and the forthcoming Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award). Recent writing appears or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Poetry Review, RHINO, The Greensboro Review, Rust + Moth, Terrain.org, On the Seawall, The National Poetry Review, Nimrod International Journal, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle, where he edits the journal Bracken.

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