Not the win, nor the
wound, but what lets
loose all of that,
what frees the
offering of kiss and
kind and oh
do tell more
Not the fun, nor the
fool, but what gets
out from the lips’
giving in, the
coming that can
bring what was once
loss into that
arena of
win, where what was
dross makes good on its
first, pulsing promise:
in vino veritas.
Joseph Byrd’s work has appeared in Fatal Flaw, South Florida Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, and forthcoming work in WAXING & WANING. He’s a 2022 Pushcart Award nominee, and was in the 2021 StoryBoard Chicago cohort with Kaveh Akbar. An Associate Artist in Poetry under Joy Harjo at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, he is on the Reading Board for The Plentitudes.
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