back to the cage and laid me inside, on the fleece blanket.
I received no
food, only a flavorless liquid that numbed my tongue.
And when I was
finished, what filled me was some sense of
accomplishment. Time had
passed; I was alive. Somebody must have
thought that was worthwhile.
Gregory Kimbrell is the author of The Primitive Observatory
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), winner of the
2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in IDK Magazine,
Impossible Archetype, The Operating System, Otoliths,
Phantom Drift, Quail Bell Magazine, and elsewhere. Kimbrell
describes himself as a “queer, furry writer” who uses poetry to
explore, and locate his own, sexual and social identity. He
sees his writing as a subversive act of myth making, of
smashing old worlds and building ne w ones. His current
guiding lights are Aase Berg, Anne Carson, Haruki
Murakami, and Armand Schwerner.
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