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.