j o s h u a w a r e

after Emily 583

I died in the motherfucking
toadlight—a privilege
granted me by something larger
than I—a naked slant

rhyme. I am an albino boy
burning in the carmine
sunset—celestial and red—
always ever blistered

My ruby skin—a common right
Light is my destroyer
A little body charred and singed
torching its life skyward

I WILL FORGET THE LIGHT after Emily 47
	You and I, tonight—with a spring breeze blown across the lake— are nothing but pronouns. And I am all of them. Get it? An outdated love song for you is a lost tune to me And who the fuck am I, except an echo of you. You I swear to you this is language— not me—multiplying us into millions of unknown forms, flowing through our we
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JOSHUA WARE was born in Cleveland, OH in 1977. He is the author of Unwanted Invention / Vargtimmen and Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, both published by Furniture Press Books. SDVIG, his chapbook with Natasha Kessler, is available here from alice blue books. Currently, he lives in Denver, CO. in issues seven fourteen

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