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Saturday, May 25, 2019

REAPED

by Alfred Fournier




a harvest of unwanted
children
rustle in corn leaves
dry with Alabama dust

songless & ravaged
forced
into being     weakly lean
in blackbird wind

somewhere a bloated fish
of a man grins               his
unwelcomed
white seed swims


Alfred Fournier resides in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an entomologist and a graduate of Purdue and George Washington Universities. His work is forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press.