“where once the absence i hold an absence
i hardly visit anymore. parts of me
sometimes find their way back into
the vacuum, ligaments vanishing sky inside
the guts of gone. a calf here, a shoulder there.
offering home for the holidays. there were
of course no other angels. i mean i was
but not precisely--”
Myriad Reflector is Benjamin Bartu’s first chapbook, published in 2023 with Poetry Online Press. It was a finalist for the Poetry.Onl Press Chapbook contest and is available for purchase here. To request an accessible .doc version of the manuscript, please contact poetry.onl/contact.
Note: Myriad Reflector is sold out at this time.