by John Gallaher
John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001) and co-editor of The Laurel Review. His poetry has recently been published in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, FIELD, jubilat, The Journal, and Ploughshares. He holds graduate degrees from Texas State University and Ohio University and lives in rural Missouri.
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ON YOUR BRILLIANT ESCAPE
In the city of the made-up city,you can watch them meet.
Desire in the backyard. Desire down the lane. Wallowing.
You can press
your enormous eye
to their window, and see them
taking it up,
becoming little red birds. And you can demand they hear you,
there at the light switch,
a fist the size of the opera house.
I’m small. I fall soft,
they could say.
I’m lovely. I know you.
