Jericho Brown
Some dark of us dark,
The ones like me, walk
Around looking for
A building or a bridge. […]
Some dark of us dark,
The ones like me, walk
Around looking for
A building or a bridge. […]
The streetlights in the cul-de-sac
blinked on one by one, illuminating
the husband’s grief as it rose and fell […]
He kept asking
Hot tub juice steamed as my ass hit air
Balanced over the shoulder of a hulking boy from Palatine
All I knew about him could fit on the wings of a fly […]
Bags breeze past my ankles in an empty lot,
the twisted heads of plastic ghosts.
Not a lot can happen here, except everything. […]
such drama. i imagine.
to walk from so far
& not come near enough to solace, only
the night uncloaks itself into a familiar pretense. […]
Some modern Moby Dick
pivots on notes of man
and behemoth choice— […]
It feels good to eat/ the devil/ is /a raw hide pulsing/ across my tongue/ sings a new sound/ her name is January/ […]
In the suburbs, through the windows, the houses leak their big ideas. One television then another darkens. […]
Recall Benjamin’s angelus novus,
broad wings blown back by winds
from paradise, the sediment of time. […]
Sam Ross’s book Company was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2017 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming in 2019. […]
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