JENKIN BENSON
White Election! (Mid-to-Late-20’s Decline)
mine
lack of curve the neck despises dance
mine
blood pressure like stew
mine routed
somehow sweating supine in the dark
mine
ribbar muscles steal you
mine
no desire for wine for 2-step pits
mine
threats of kyphosis
mine titled
for poiesis for lust for the floor
mine
every copayment
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The Soul selects (Summer Terror)
never choose
a des moines july
pig shit fuel
loamfull
all gaunt
bastions of air-con
long rude
sweatfolds
desertification
always
beige dead
tassel torchcut
the best city
in america
rotting
carp fort
decade of
drought
decade of
fasces
nice polk nice
please return
niobraran sea
glut this
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Jenkin Benson is a 1st year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. He principally studies the creative interchange between Welsh and Irish modernists. He writes poetry. You can find his work in New Note Poetry, the /temz/ Review, and KEITH LLC.