• Urban Renewal (cxii.)

    Major Jackson

    Winter 2023

    Over and over again I bring the peach to my mouth,
    the peach of thunder, the peach of bare necessities,
    the peach of starry consolation, a singular path
    of desire along my brain stem, the peach of my enemies
    whose slights flyover like poisoned air, dark
    as an ink blotter, or like honking geese whose blaring still
    I welcome. Look at my cheekbones, wet and sticky
    with the juice of living. What arrives as a riddle
    to others cloudy mornings is merely the conundrum
    I enter like a raft going downstream over rough waters.

    Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems. He teaches at Vanderbilt University and serves as the host of the podcast The Slowdown.

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