Of Locations

I’m so
exited
what it’s 4
AM out
there
the weather
‘s diplopic
progress
sense
of (re)
(en) vision
double-pain
glance
offing
some bird
dis / missed of
worm con
-corded & re
coned
tickets to
be punched
out round
a round
-ed hole
who
-lly glottled
autumn’s
anew
kind of headache
relation
ships are
distance
time is
reading is
space is
listening
a map
of exceptions a
chart of
locations
& that smoke
coming from
the house
-s is
the dream
of a position

Fountains in Winter

I keep saying
anaphora

what I mean is
anathema

my phone corrects
both to snapshots

why we
keep going

the prod

is a question
telescope

ing mechanism

hard
to answer

how many
years you take

off your life

in the space
of one

Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. His work has appeared in jubilat, Territory, Poetry Northwest, on the Academy of American Poets website, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Cleveland State, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and is managing editor at Cleveland Review of Books.