Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday

solitaire for voices

best of sheets to you,

              hot sleeper

       whisk me away

            in voices,

       hot solitaire

        one of the things

        about writing

things down is I think

I left something out

or words have been added

             at the cost

        of wordless thought

I’m never going to forget

              feeling like this

       no matter what you do

Through postcards, slaptags, voicemails and other ephemera, Buck Downs creates a body of work as expansive and intimate as life and death. Book projects include NICE NOSE (Buck Downs Dot Com) and Mystical Hobby of Christ: The Poetry of Chris Toll (lack mountain/ZDWP).

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