from Empty Craft
As planned
surface overshushes,
you taut pause
after pause to rush
another dollop of
wordplay.
So far,
a cooler fatigue
twangs its hearty
logic into these
startled tweaks as
you set themes
along me, antique.
Attentionless,
your empty craft
tenses.
ryan
fitzpatrick is the author of four books and over fifteen chapbooks of poetry, including the recent Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks 2021) and the forthcoming Sunny Ways (Invisible 2023). Over the last twenty years, he has been involved in the poetry communities of Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. Currently, he is the editor of Model Press, an online poetry micropress founded during the pandemic. You can find him at ryanfitzpatrick.ca.
