Jonathan Duckworth
ARMATURE
how moonswept the sky
how sky the wellwater / how coalmine the canary
how cathedral the heart’s chambers
how crow the call / how bright the under
how blood the microplastic / how mute the body
how forest the mushroom / how carbon
the tomorrow / how pretty / how greenhouse
how water-table the limestone
how short the time / how catastrophic the I
how city the sunk / how bone the coral
how beautiful the not yet / how stay the execution
how polite the apocalypse / how money the doom
how tall the twin skylines
reaching two ways from both panes of a puddle
how freighted the lungs with rue & wow
JONATHAN LOUIS DUCKWORTH received his MFA from Florida International University and is a PhD student at the University of North Texas. His work appears in Barrelhouse, Bayou, Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Southwest Review, Superstition Review, and Tupelo Quarterly.
ISSUE FOURTEEN features poetry by Austin Araujo, Rae Armantrout, Aaron Baker, David Baker, Cal Bedient, John Berryman, Daniel Borzutzky, Izzy Casey, Colby Cotton, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Yongyu Chen, William Virgil Davis, Maggie Dietz, Kirsten Kaschock, David Kirby, Virginia Konchan, Timothy Liu, Airea D. Matthews, Ted Mathys, Erika Meitner, Olatunde Osinaike, Mary Ruefle, Natalie Shapero, Jordan Stempleman, and Matthew Tuckner; fiction by Tyler Barton, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Tom Howard, and John Dermot Woods; nonfiction by Emmeline Clein, Aryn Kyle, David Stuart MacLean, and Justin Quarry; and Airea D. Matthews in conversation with Devon Walker-Figueroa.