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.