Benjamin Patterson – Blooms

Blooms Twelve yellowed lilies rising from the irises now departed twelve forms the circle. Five is a star: points weaving lightness of sound, the yellow brass together as five flies circling, crushed one between my finger and palm. Am I a good man, a spot of dark blood on the skin? Walking on pavement turned […]

Zachary Kluckman – Moonlit Effigies

Moonlit Effigies Once we weighed                               all the scarecrows from our father’s              fields.     I don’t remember                                                         what we were trying to prove, but we counted              ourselves lucky. To know the full sky without                               a fear for the heaviness of our bodies.              To run.     Legs stretching                                                         like the dying light of day.              Fish still in the ponds. […]