Dan Albergotti
Summary Report
We fell from the fall.
We slid down that slide.
We crouched at the call.
We hid our young hide.
We woke in a yoke.
We pushed at their pace.
We jumped at their joke.
We reckoned the race.
We battered the brother.
We anchored the ark.
We othered each other.
We darkened the dark.
We pilfered our power.
We laid a writ law.
We tumbled a tower.
We jagged with a jaw.
We coded all colors.
We feathered all faiths.
We denoted dollars.
We wrangled with wraiths.
We dirtied the dust.
We smothered with smoke.
We readied the rust.
We spiked as we spoke.
We drew up the deeds.
We set all the snares.
We negated needs.
We cancelled all cares.
We clicked every clock.
We scratched every screen.
We wrecked every rock.
We gulped gasoline.
We fired up the forest.
We reddened the rain.
We pitched out the poorest.
We ditched the storm drain.
We withered the whale.
We lathered the lake.
We shattered the shale.
We quickened the quake.
We eyed every iris.
We dragged on the drugs.
We veiled the last virus.
We bedded with bugs.
We cornered in caves.
We laughed at the last.
We wave from the waves.
We passed in your past.
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008) and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as two chapbooks from Unicorn Press: The Use of the World (2013) and Of Air and Earth (2019). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Five Points, The Southern Review, Thrush, The Best American Poetry 2017, and two editions of The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.
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We fell from the fall.
We slid down that slide.
We crouched at the call.
We hid our young hide.
We woke in a yoke.
We pushed at their pace.
We jumped at their joke.
We reckoned the race.
We battered the brother.
We anchored the ark.
We othered each other.
We darkened the dark.
We pilfered our power.
We laid a writ law.
We tumbled a tower.
We jagged with a jaw.
We coded all colors.
We feathered all faiths.
We denoted dollars.
We wrangled with wraiths.
We dirtied the dust.
We smothered with smoke.
We readied the rust.
We spiked as we spoke.
We drew up the deeds.
We set all the snares.
We negated needs.
We cancelled all cares.
We clicked every clock.
We scratched every screen.
We wrecked every rock.
We gulped gasoline.
We fired up the forest.
We reddened the rain.
We pitched out the poorest.
We ditched the storm drain.
We withered the whale.
We lathered the lake.
We shattered the shale.
We quickened the quake.
We eyed every iris.
We dragged on the drugs.
We veiled the last virus.
We bedded with bugs.
We cornered in caves.
We laughed at the last.
We wave from the waves.
We passed in your past.
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008) and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as two chapbooks from Unicorn Press: The Use of the World (2013) and Of Air and Earth (2019). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Five Points, The Southern Review, Thrush, The Best American Poetry 2017, and two editions of The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.
Return to May 2020 Edition