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The Strong Man Vaguely Seen

Weary of the unskilled captions & the poor
impulsive cautions, we look to the light
of superlatives like the rigged prom queen—
out of the giving vein, dried, she drifts
into the room & makes of it a gutter. How
freedom settles inevitably, the gold catkins
outshone, talked over, waiting to be changed.

Elizabeth Savage is the poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art.  Her most recent collection, Noncallable Debenture, is from Dancing Girl Press. Recent critical work appears in Poetics Today.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx