National Poetry Month : Geoffrey Olsen,

 

Taken Into First Round Cure

 

 

 

trying to follow what passage words open. there's a glistening feel

how it rests outside of importance, yet still moves. deceptive. Is it a desire that tastes its emergence but doesn't changes its past?

          poem splinters its force, not forcing its splinters,
or meets a "need", I don't know, but follow it.

Something tied backward, lenient, wanting a more lenient world. riven with fluctuation, but droning continuum, with what I failed to frame.

 

 

 

 

Geoffrey Olsen's first book, Nerves Between Song, will be released by Beautiful Days Press on 5/4 (pre-order here). He is the author of five chapbooks, most recently Livid Remainders (above/ground press 2023). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.