by Jon Wesick
Sad tidings for the family of eighty-two-year-old Norman Goestler. The St. Louis native was vacationing in China’s Shanxi Province, when he died in an earthquake. Local officials say Mr. Goestler suffered a heart attack brought on by the shaking of his hotel room. Two hundred thousand Chinese were also killed in the quake.
Jon Wesick has a Ph.D. in physics, has practiced Buddhism for over twenty years, and has published over a hundred poems in small press journals such as American Tanka, Anthology Magazine, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review, Limestone Circle, The Magee Park Anthology, The Publication, Pudding, Sacred Journey, San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Slipstream, Tidepools, Vortex of the Macabre, Zillah, and others. His chapbooks have won honorable mentions twice in the San Diego Book Awards.