& i’ll

tell me your if
& i’ll give you my am

& the water will swallow
every stone you throw

unfurl your you
& i’ll cast out my were

& the sky will suck at
each word you every speak

cry out your when
& I’ll plunge in my or

coal eyes catch fire
& plummet like meteors

take off my no
& give me your yes

your yes is our are

your yesses are stars

Underneath

[…and I slipped away (and
became light and surround
ed by berries, lifting up (down
into a riverbed of smooth
round stones in which (clouds be
came i and you became sun
and in (light filled my glass
gushed forth from your eyes
and (i threw such a strong punch
but strength left my limbs oh
(silence filled darkness so
low and quiet until i) a) w) o) k) e)
tumbling out into the bright loud world
from dreams upon dreams within dreams upon dreams upon]

David Courtright is a poet, fiction writer, and singer/musician living in Atlanta, Georgia.  Over the last two years, he has lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a quaint little mountain town just south of Laos, and New Delhi, India, a not so quaint or little town on the scorched plains of north India. He is currently working on a chapbook to be released early next year.  He is twenty-four years of age. These poems mark his publishing debut.

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