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Derek JG Williams

The Slow Dissolve
after Carl Phillips

not the waves
but the rocks

not the rocks
but the hips

the flesh
flung taut

butterflying
blade stung

straight from
the waist

made a
puncture

a wound a
clean cut

through
whitecaps

it filled
with foam

not blood
the body

again
pale skin

reddening
beaten about

by the waves
by the sun

by-and-by
water collects

the swimmer
a whip

leather brined
receding

 

Derek JG Williams puts words into rows both long and short. He’s a 2016 Blacksmith House Emerging Writer. Early this year he had a poem featured on the Boston MBTA’s Red Line. Derek’s poems are published or forthcoming in Best New Poets, Plume, Forklift Ohio, Prairie Schooner, H_NGM_N, New Ohio Review, and Salamander, among others. He currently lives in Arizona. Learn more at his website: www.derekjgwilliams.com.

 

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