The Screaming Sheep

I Sing of Seven Inversions

Sensuality

finds in dry logic its best

justification.

 

               I am not James Wright,

              but surely some days Tu Fu

              was not quite Tu Fu.

 

                            Face to face with night,

                            I wonder: which of the specks

                            transmits Skinemax,

 

                                          just how many Haikus

                                          before I’m expert enough

                                          to know I’m awful,

 

                            and do bees profess

                            immaculate autarky

                            even from pollen?

 

              Ants in my kitchen;

              find bugspray in the cupboard;

              ants crawl on the can.

 

If only I could

trap the sunlight in a flask—

I guess I’ll just write.

Jonathan Duckworth

Jonathan Louis Duckworth is a current MFA student at Florida International University in Miami, where he works as a teaching assistant. He also serves as a reader and copy-editor for the Gulf Stream Literary Magazine. His work appears in or is set to appear in Sliver of Stone Magazine, Mount Island Magazine, the Kudzu Review, and Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal.