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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
    • 1 Poem by Jarrett Moseley
    • 3 Poems by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
​HAWKS, BEETLES, GIRAFFES, AND GOATEES
 
I know what you’re thinking:
                                                the writer is a giraffe
 
                                                the giraffe
has a
goatee
 
it’s reciting something it wrote in a blog post
                                                it’s no longer shy, nor
afraid
of
being
                                                vulnerable
 
there are apostrophes dangling from the roof of the world
where swooping hawks coming from another dimension
begin
to
laugh
                                                seeing
everything
                                                dying
they leave, and go ranting
about bad grammar, plastic in the ocean, and
man
the beetles
are
dead
too
 
so I tune my invisible acoustic
guitar
and remain as one
with everything
(even though I will probably have to
shave
sometime
soon.)

Bryan William Myers has been published in Red Fez, Whirlwind Magazine, Entropy, Nightingale & Sparrow, MyWorldAbroad, Beatdom, and Vietnam Insider. For the last 18 months, he has traveled around the world, visiting 12 countries last year. His website is bryanwilliammyers.com.
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