24 Jun John Colasacco
Posted at 11:52h
in Poetry
The 2016 Metatron
Prize Shortlist
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BOSTON VS LOS ANGELES (PART 2)
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last year
someone’s
sounds of flames
grew distant
like a chair with
flowers carved into it
this good music
was good for
forgetting
the ex-boyfriends
are bathing
in the dark
imagining
what objects
they will hold
at chest-level
when they are old
even if nothing
is wrong
even if
their souls
are a mouth inside
a mouth
for 3000 days
we were going
to share
a whole apple
you didn’t
want to be
a girl walking
backward
through a field
the day is just
as nice in
the city as
it is in the country
other boys
are tying knots
in the air
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John Colasacco’s previous and upcoming books include Antigolf (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015), The Information Crusher (forthcoming, Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and two other book-length poems (Two Teenagers, forthcoming Horse Less Press 2016, and The Wagners, trnsfr books, 2017).
