Issue 29, Winter '12

Trump

by Shya Scanlon Issue 7 12.08.2006

I’ve got something beautiful I want to show you, but.  There’s a subtle
falling away from, a rubbed undoing you’re guilty of.  There’s a miss.
Don’t ask me how I know.  Don’t ask unless you’re wearing good shoes.
We were so young together!  Do you remember how that wind spread fire
through the trees?  You thought a breath could blow it out. Do you
remember when the sun went down on you?  I watched the whole thing
through a pinhole in your pocket, and still went blind.

Shya Scanlon

Shya Scanlon

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Shya Scanlon is an MFA candidate at Brown University.  ”Trump” is from a book-length series of 7-line prose poems called “In This Alone Impulse,” which has inspired a contest at Opium Magazine called “The Shya Scanlon Seven-Line Prose Award.” See more here.