"Let’s play a quick game, class: / list everything new under the sun. / Think cloud-based collaboration. / Think even bigger. / Thankfully, the story can now be told / on a planetary scale..."
William C. Blome's work has previously appeared in Poetry London, PRISM International, In Between Hangovers, Fiction Southeast, Roanoke Review, and The California Quarterly.
"our lot was labor / & liquor / made us feel bigger / than monstrosities, sooty / for the tazing / amoebic cancerous darlings / whispers from lineage to lineage, / clutching their pain..."
"The only way I can / get his attention is by ripping out / the translucent, turquoise
piece of rubber that squeaks in his mouth / in lieu of conversation..."
"your outer barbs / the finest and most precious : / the soft palate needs to lift to make sound but sometimes we are silenced in the mud / Diopside stimulates new cycles of growth..."