CAMERON LOVEJOY
staging an elegy
in ruins. doom
is but so
common
mood. a butterfly
enters a butchershop
where the
poem is
taken
but the blade.
ashen flash
to a solemn
thing ; dust
slips
the sharp to air,
goes sputtering.
against
death on
a table. against
heat in
a cake.
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Cameron Lovejoy is a self-educated printer and poet who operates Tilted House, a small press in New Orleans. In 2025 Eulalia will release his translation of Argentine poet Olivia Milberg's 40 drops diluted in two fingers of water. Other work can be found in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Ghost Proposal, Annulet, and elsewhere.