• Black Flight

    Douglas Kearney

    Fall 2019

    Came I was way out as it flies
    but an easy green and skies
    isn’t it? My cul-de-end is a nice, though
    it’s like the knot I keep my knickers in
    to hey there stay here. Damn right
    I’d rather not not squat some pissy asphalt
    plot not. Rather put-em-up where I got
    to picket in self-defense?

    Foundation for Contemporary Arts CY Twombly awardee Douglas Kearney writes interdisciplinarily and has published six books. He teaches at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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