Adam Stutz
ANGLER (A PRECIPITATION)
The indent of origin/a flight/a kiss goodnight
is a price check the love like open
(like a salvo)—
perhaps a clarion the backwash
is a bright break in the throat—
a bitter license: a charity
for something hidden
The organs (a riot squad)
offer a harsh horizon
glowing in haunting regrets
Forlornness has a knack for neon:
laced up with a backward-looking
lucidity
liquor stores
laundromats crash-pad
hopefulness + false narratives
like anglers dangling lights
for prey these plots
promised refuge once
promised faulty temples
giving rise to love songs
ardent elegies
for our lechery
Solitude is a diktat a refutation
an expulsion
an expectation bleeding politely
The memory dances
in clothed cravings playing
spin-the-bottle pursuing a body
a politic of lease
Adam Stutz is the the co-curator of the Non-Standard Lit Reading Series with Mark Wallace and Jeanine Webb. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Equalizer: Second Series, White Stag, The Cultural Society, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Prelude, Be About It, Deluge, Dum Dum Zine, The Pinch, and Where is the River. He is the author of the chapbook Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017) and The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018). He currently resides in San Diego, CA.
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