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.