“The Switch,” by Michael A. de Armas (Poetry ’20)

The LEON Literary Review recently featured “The Switch,” a poem by 2020 graduate Michael A. de Armas. Read an excerpt below:

The Switch

Yes it’s true you can break things,
I tell my younger daughter one night, who,
after crying in her crib in our room
without much result, turns the light switch
on and off and so makes her need known
to an entire city block, even boats out in the bay
see the wild flicker of her distress…

Read the poem in its entirety here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/2020/09/michael-a-de-armas-the-switch/