The Year in Streaming the child and siren align summering down hands incomplete as dancers waxing rainbow moonstone “can you stop suffering for like, a minute?” do you mean could i? burn through? wave by wave? at what difference? in a spiral, crocodile & roses aaaaallll day teach myself (again) to rest is not to squander lighten as the sun hits off the cymbal nn-tsk like back in the day when we were still planets to a plum— swan-swank gonging in between
—Submitted on 09/26/2022
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of A blue nocturne notebook (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021) and four other collections. In 2017 he was a co-organizer of the Boston Poetry Marathon. He lives near Boston.
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