Charles Shields’s work has appeared in Prick of the Spindle. This fall he will be entering The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to wrap up his undergraduate degree.
between the S / heets
between the 3 / fold frequency
any symbolic gem is
sunlike in its con / fluence
with color / I won’t believe the wind is not alive
wherein we went / we can gel
at the last minute / the last
inaccurate minute split into its constituency
of individual facets
and you thought / I thought
the wind is not alive
as I am not a condition of myself but what is
touched / and isn’t the
de you can’t hiss to enscribe this structible love with / a history
of its construction / ductile
ghost tapered to a point / a penile un- /
til you come
in reverse across the poppy field
to the place from which
the notely name / the fragrant mote / first boned you