New Work by Erick Piller

New poems by alumnus Eric Piller (poetry, ’12) appear online in H_NGM_N:

Poem

The plague has visited and the festival begun; the city’s boarded up

my house. Now “door” and “window” repeat like a song

sung to me once by a nurse. I wait for a change

of the guard.

 

I’m not going to write about you.

I’m going to write about the weather.

Outside, it’s hot. Inside, it’s cool.

It’s humid, because I’m weeping!…

…

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The Book of Ours

I love the steady

rhythm of analog clocks

but to buy an an-

alog clock today would

seem so quaint so

I bought an analog

clock and hid

the face under

electrical tape I am

gaslighting…

…

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