My Favorite Carving, a Poetry Reading

Mouth opened for the sky;
that’s the you who’s new, who I keep in mind.
Waves of our mothers and fathers flow by,
grazing our toes in this sand of wartime.

Like an ax to the neck, oh, how this hurts.
Follow a pattern, get better, think worse.
If we ever found all of the answers we seek
would our questions still long to invert?

Honestly,
I don’t want to be
some nerveless example of wreckage,
a make believe fool who just won’t get the message.

There’s more to us,
and I’m sure of it.

But if that is your reason then I must confess:
you’re living your life in a magazine dress, gutting yourself to affix to a vision.

The voice in your head; have you ever listened?

It’s soft and nice.

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Dylan James

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Dylan James is an emerging writer and Ohio University alumnus based out of Columbus, Ohio. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Rivanna Review, Metonym Journal, Unstamatic Magazine and more. Find him on Instagram.