A poem by Noah Stetzer (Poetry ’14)

Noah Stetzer (Poetry ’14) recently had a poem featured in the Cortland Review. Read an excerpt of this uniquely-titled poem below:

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When they started me at last
on combination therapy, they warned
about a body and its immune system
free again to fix itself
with an overwhelming response:
my mouth blistered with ulcers
as my body rushed to catch
up with all its infections. I went looking
for the opposite of explosion
and not implosion, not another
kind of destruction. In my mind
I saw time-lapse films that show
slow growth at record speed.

Read the poem in its entirety here: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/85/stetzer.php