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Waiting, A Rudder, and Something Smooth

The warmth on my leg is this generation. The blankness I see is the next. These things scare me, a little, but I’m largely prepared. I’ve taken all the appropriate notes. I’ve followed the small child down the hall with his bathroom pass into the teachers’ lounge. Wood meets metal on a desk and asks for clemency but gets screwed. Gouges on the floor remark casually about enormous gaps in the mind. That is a flower print dress. That is a pencil unsharpened. This is the first drop of sweat down my back.

Shya Scanlon reads from his work on Thursday April 5, 7pm at Rust Belt Books (202 Allen Street), with Steven Huff opening. Part of Just Buffalo’s Communique series. Free.