Of Calamities
Bryan D. Price
she implores me to stop reading about the old city—
ghosts and fractions of ghosts spread across the cornea
like surface hoar all slowly changing...
deceived by time or the idea of time I take the worst
of it or smallest flake and believe it—make it into
an origin story or moment of clarity carefully poised
between two theories of violence
Bryan D. Price's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Posit, DMQ Review, Rhino Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in San Diego with his wife, a dog, and a cat named for Pina Bausch, where (or thereabouts) he teaches history and humanities. He is working on a manuscript of elegies entitled, A Plea for Secular Gods.