Backward Binoculars And Postage for
Corpses
I’m all eyes and indigo
inking signatures in light and
language,
riddles sewn into the bottom of
busy tongues.
Strangers press their teeth
together,
a clack in place of lips.
The underbelly of the morning
grinds against the back of the
world—
long-distance casualties propped
against broken shovels.
I lick the inside of their eyelids
and seal them—
hope they get where they need to go.
About the Poet:
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently
published in journals such as: Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and
minnesota review. He won the 2011 Indiana Review Poetry Contest and
his first book, Curio (2014), won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award
Judge’s Prize. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University.
He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the
University of Missouri.
About the Sound of Sugar:
We’ve loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), so now we want an opportunity to better hear our contributors. We will feature an audio recording of a poem from one of our seven issues, read by the poet and updated every couple of weeks. This an open invitation to all contributors from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to hear it.
We’ve loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), so now we want an opportunity to better hear our contributors. We will feature an audio recording of a poem from one of our seven issues, read by the poet and updated every couple of weeks. This an open invitation to all contributors from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to hear it.