Rikki Santer
Breach
the news breaking us again//again
perception of perception
still locked in the purgatory of 2020
curry the physics of armed herds braying
at the God door for more dopamine hits from a viral internet
fingering the hilts of their swords
in a country of darkdark Maple Streets
with not enough justice to mete out
for crackpot theories bubbling in cauldrons
monoliths on the hate spectrum
what can cure us of these lunatic pleasures
—Submitted on 01/06/2021
Rikki Santer is the author of Drop Jaw (NightBallet Press, 2020) and seven other collections. Her poems have appeared in The Main Street Rag, Poetry East, Slab, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, and other journals. Santer is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Online at
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