Expectation Elegy
pocks on the motherworts. gray-green, white- green, dogeared. no one volunteers to be ill, you say. and i the heart alone sustains us. above the light in cowlicks slips between our sundown's favored trees. coming…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Benjamin Bartu is a poet & disability studies researcher. He is the author of the chapbook Myriad Reflector (2023), finalist for the Poetry Online Chapbook Contest. His poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal, Sonora Review, Bellingham Review, HAD, nat.brut, Guesthouse, & elsewhere. He lives in Oakland, California.
pocks on the motherworts. gray-green, white- green, dogeared. no one volunteers to be ill, you say. and i the heart alone sustains us. above the light in cowlicks slips between our sundown's favored trees. coming…