Understanding

Michael Beard
| poetry

 

in winter’s throat stuck. I am stuck in winter’s throat,
the throat winter stuck me in. I am winter
in winter’s throat stuck and my mother is here.

winter has my mother stuck in its throat and
I am also here. not in winter, just us stuck with
my winter. it’s just my winter is throat stuck

in me. just us, stuck in winter’s throat and my winter.
my mother’s winter is stuck with my winter and
I am my mother. my mother stuck my mother in me.

Michael Beard (he/him) holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Baltimore Review, BOOTH, and Puerto Del Sol, among others. He currently lives in Tennessee and teaches Dual Enrollment English at local high schools.

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