the Pain goes on for miles
listen like I listen
the acres of it
mercifully opening
like the Ohio into vagrant joy
Poem and Image by James Diaz
James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Motel Prayers (Alien Buddha, 2022) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their most recent work can be found in Rust + Moth, Sugar House Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine and Thrush Poetry Journal. / Twitter: diaz_james
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