WHO IS QUEEN?

by Chris Hosea

 after Adam Pendelton

It’s all grey area

you can’t entirely

discern the end

of the chromatic

spectrum music

tries mono-ing us

stereo-ing us

if neither satisfies

full busy Sundays

you’d like

movement

in rooms

spinning

everything

toward limits

ushers darkness-

es to ultimate

violence  

that surrounds one

taking courage

 tending to today’s

love’s needs

HOLD MUSIC

by Chris Hosea

Set on speaker reach

 

my line, say, for

 example:

 

‘You

are going 

 

in and out’

  *

 To think all far, dear

 

numbers

 

 ever

 

we knew

 

 as if

 

one could

 

two

About the author

Born in Princeton, New Jersey, poet, editor, and curator Chris Hosea earned a BA at Harvard College and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Hosea is the author of the poetry collections Double Zero (2016) and Put Your Hands In (2014).

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