Michael Prihoda
is
blindness
some kind
of
Old Testament mercy?
it’s seismic the way
the hood puckers
at every intake of breath.
in that blindness lies
a realization of how the universe’s arms
never stop widening; how still
a hurtling rock can seem
when twelve guns
point at one heart
crack!!
-ack!
-ack!
-ack!
slump.
trickle.
some new evolution.
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Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine and small press. His work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and he is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).