Alex Tretbar, author of the chapbook Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025), teaches free writing classes to the community at the Kansas City Public Library. Raised in Wichita, he is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Multivalent Elegy, Three Days After Summer Solstice

by Alex Tretbar

I don’t think about him much anymore.
It doesn’t matter who he is. I could be talking
about Berryman, Daniel, or my father. The former
entranced me once, and Daniel died on the highway.
My father died while high. How is it that we have to

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