Finish Your Breakfast

By Oliver Baez Bendorf

Four horizontal lines of verse appear inside a line-drawn blob that is centered on the page: “barnacles attach to infrastructure / the way I do now / their main sense being touch / rhythm inextricable from light”

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Source: Poetry (October 2023)

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