Why Should I Register?
Clothes That Fit Better
I would rather take this anonymity
Next to my name than any picture,
Instead of an awkward stare
And cheeks too puffy to let eyes through,
There is a square of a cyber quilt,
Red with triangles and crescents,
A wonderful geometry, far more even
Than all I wear between chin and forehead.
Smoke has carried away 2 AM
You are aware they fit together
Focus on the experimental
Empty beyond the sunset
I know how no darkness
Is a rest from impulses
A figure is an environment
The love of one
Is penance for us both
You think of empty pockets
About the bloodstream
You lose yourself
And there will be a bed
Carrying away many colors
Lids that open elsewhere.
Ben Nardolilli is a twenty five year old writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in the Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Caper Literary Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, Anemone Sidecar, The Delmarva Review, Contemporary American Voices, the Eudaimonia Poetry Review, Gloom Cupboard, Black Words on White Paper, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. In addition he maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is looking to publish his first novel.
