"Like the philosopher’s difficult handwriting, / Popular in certain traditions, history / Ultimately turns out the same, slobbering / Over a six-string July in the shadow..."
Congratulations to Joseph Harms, featured author of The Gravity of the Thing's Spring 2017 issue and author of the new poetry collection Bel (Expat Press).
"...could watch the tiny curls / being sewn onto a baby doll’s head / on youtube / sterile gloved hands spiral the hair / spinning and giving in to its orbit..."