we saw a woman with four legs. Well dressed, seated, comfortably appointed and knitting. And I wondered if the soul of her twin was free and happy as I wondered if the stars of this show and in the sky and my son and any of us are free and happy or non-ambulatory souls blind […]
Paul Koniecki
Paul Koniecki lives and writes poetry in Dallas, Texas. His poems appear in the movie One of the Rough, he was a featured poet at the Blackwater International Poetry Festival in Ireland, and he co-facilitates the literary-revolution series Meet Me With Curiosity. His poetry is available through Kleft Jaw Press, NightBallet Press, CWP Collective Press, and Spartan Press.
Adam’s Song
Now that I am tall, too tall, and nearer to god and death we have come to the freak-show again. Where will I fit in at seven feet eight inches tall, three breaths left and no time for the rhetorical? In my eye there is a skyscraper, a sparrow, and a new cloud, my own […]
Fair Day, or to the river with my Little Fish
We came to the circus grounds by small train, not a toy in the forest, but the fog swaddled everything. Between galena tinctured arms of trees branching to smaller fingerlings and capillaries of damp brown hair on the steam engine swam. And Adam and I immersed in it on the front most wooden bench holding […]