you remember that saying about molasses
the part about moving slowly like
in a dream like I was in molasses and
he yums up a glass of milk as he says it
well this is like that but the molasses
is real molasses and the bark dark
a little chunky gunk more sticky than
anything like dropping a watch back
over a timezone
and so it’s hard
to move at all and my fingernails
will never be pretty again I hear a bright
whimper is it the limp horn boomer
of the second coming is it a tummy
wanting hot meat wanting molasses
E. Jesse Capobianco is a Chicago-based poet. He has received graduate degrees from the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium and George Mason University’s MFA, where he completed theses on poetic epistemologies and hypnotic hermeneutics, respectively. His work has been published in Barrelhouse, Puerto del Sol, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, The Cardiff Review, and elsewhere.
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