Carl Hancock Rux
Issue 17 • Spring 2016
"The only difference between a rut
and a grave are the dimensions."
Ellen Glasgow
Who will you
Be
On the other
Side of
Be-coming?
A scream pushed
Against closed doors
Compassionate
To a fault cramming
Epicurean laughter
Into a half
Written narrative
Regarding
Middle age-dom
Mated
To frigidity
Unloved and returned
Toward indifference?
A bipolar transparency
Allowing air to set in
The dry
Sedentary Space of
Formative memory
Leaking
Variables into
A bowl of
Fat-bellied ethics
Yesterday's scry
Blindness
As an experiment
In multiverse falsifiability
Grounding
Ingots into the hollow
Corpses of Schopenhauer's
Words
A broken window
Frame taped
Against translucent glass
With an eye on
Dancing constellations…
Or will you allow
Yourself
To Be-come
The poetry
Of
Simple
Sentences
Demanding
Regard?