Rick Snyder
AGES OF MAN
Hesiod never knew
about the Lithium Age,
in which people
collapsed into categories
and hated each other
because of them.
He also didn’t know
about the Age of Exhaust
or the Age of Exhaustion,
the Age of the Aged
or the Age of Aphasia,
when I stared at a screen
like a windshield
stares at the sun.
Hesiod didn’t know
about any of these ages
(which are really
just one), but he did
know that the worst age
is yet to come.
RICK SNYDER is the author of Here City (Parlor Press, 2021), Escape from Combray (Ugly Duckling, 2009), and six chapbooks. He teaches in the Classics department at the University of California, Irvine.
ISSUE FIFTEEN features poetry by Samuel Amadon, Malachi Black, Thea Brown, Michael Chang, Adam Clay, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Brandon Downing, Kami Enzie, Angie Estes, John Gallaher, Rachel Galvin, Matthew Gellman, Bob Hicok, Domenica Martinello, Julia Anna Morrison, Mark Nowak, Allan Peterson, Elizabeth Robinson, David Roderick, Mary Jo Salter, Rob Schlegel, Will Schutt, Donna Stonecipher, Rodrigo Toscano, Noah Warren, Phillip B. Williams, and Stella Wong; fiction by Aimee Bender, Amelia Gray, and Keith Lesmeister; creative nonfiction by Su-Yee Lin, Philip Metres, and Kim Gek Lin Short; and Donna Stonecipher in conversation with Camille Guthrie.