“Sleep on a Bed of Nails,” by Matthew Olzmann

Two poems by MFA faculty member Matthew Olzmann were recently featured in the Leon Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Sleep on a Bed of Nails” below:

Sleep on a Bed of Nails

The trick is: more nails.
Enough of them, and with your weight
distributed evenly among a thousand or so,
any given nail, individually, cannot generate
enough pressure to inflict its judgment.

Read the rest of this poem (and “Field Guide for Identifying Winged Creatures”) here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/2020/03/sleep-on-a-bed-of-nails-by-matthew-olzmann-2/