“If I Don’t Black Out” by Ross White

A poem by alum Ross White (poetry, ’08) appears at The Collagist:

The secret is to swallow cities whole,
drink from the gulch after floodwaters come,
make a nest of stars to safely pass night
and emerge fresh in the morning. Drink beer

by the barrel, gin by the distillery,
smoke fields of tobacco wrapped in muslin.
Live like a titan until living
kills you. Cronus sent mammoth

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