Zachary Kluckman – Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro I fill the water with my inky emissions. Invisible life. A heart full of shadows, like Sunday mornings. Brick alley chiaroscuros. I pretend they never find me haunting myself in rain puddles. Never splash myself with dirty water to taste myself. I stopped pressing my tongue to my wounds as a child. There’s only […]

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. […]