Elegy for 1990
A murder of five echoed the muddy rush refusing my skinny oak arms, pop cans and cardboard scarves scolding my hand. A barge chewed the center current, a brown rat piloting an empty gallon jug…
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Ben Kline
Ben Kline (he/him/his) lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Author of the chapbooks Sagittarius A* and Dead Uncles, host of Poetry Afield and Poetry Stacked, Ben is a poet and storyteller whose work appears in bedfellows magazine, Pangyrus Lit, South Carolina Review, Pigeon Pages, Poetry, Southeast Review, Autofocus, fourteen poems and many other publications.
Eternal Flame
The podcast host asks “When did you realize you’re queer?” but no age counts the same knuckles, wrinkles and twinks, ear and armpit hairs, orthopedic aches the real daddy, time kudzuing reason, premature efforts to…