Adam Deutsch
Action
Spend this entire life
pulling spikes of steel
from the field.
Take from our air
the thickets of synthetics
collected at our ankles
upon which we trip,
jaws all over the floor,
what dies in happening.
Then re-plant that life,
one recollapsed
into the full pulver
to still fight. We will
all rise—a fever’s heat
secreting illness
callousing skin, salting
water flushing waste
from the ducts, the pours.
Adam Deutsch is the author of a full-length collection, Every Transmission (Fernwood Press). He has work recently in Poetry International, Thrush, Juked, AMP Magazine, Broken Lens Journal, and Typo, and has a chapbook called Carry On (Elegies). He teaches in the English Department at Grossmont College and is the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books. He lives with his spouse and child in San Diego, CA. AdamDeutsch.com
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Spend this entire life
pulling spikes of steel
from the field.
Take from our air
the thickets of synthetics
collected at our ankles
upon which we trip,
jaws all over the floor,
what dies in happening.
Then re-plant that life,
one recollapsed
into the full pulver
to still fight. We will
all rise—a fever’s heat
secreting illness
callousing skin, salting
water flushing waste
from the ducts, the pours.
Adam Deutsch is the author of a full-length collection, Every Transmission (Fernwood Press). He has work recently in Poetry International, Thrush, Juked, AMP Magazine, Broken Lens Journal, and Typo, and has a chapbook called Carry On (Elegies). He teaches in the English Department at Grossmont College and is the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books. He lives with his spouse and child in San Diego, CA. AdamDeutsch.com
Return to July 2024 Edition