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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
  • 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
While Walking

These mosquitoes follow  
              flitting in frenzy

always just an inch away 
              from my fevered tips

a swarm stalling my steps
              around each street bend

should I wait for them--
              those who lie in wait

to finish with their haunting
              if there is no end

I am giving up now
              my high strung swatting

is futile movement--
              a need to covet solitude

and their need— 
              an unappeased thirst
 
but what else is left
              to suck from a carcass

roaming down the side
              of a barren road

are they only here
              to remind me

how far I am from home  
              and that even this moment

walking alone disrupting dry air
              is not mine

that this world is too full of things
              ​all too full of need

Wayne Benson is a poet and freelance writer from Easton, Pennsylvania. He is currently earning his MFA from the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Wayne is also the poetry editor at River and South Review and is in the process of drafting his first collection of poems.
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