from Pursuit
9
Months pass
the next time
we speak
the boar
recaged
relief
offers me
a lamp
promises the
dethorning of
my throat
I need
to oblige
the light
my leaves
plump
of water
&
the thorn
unheaded
for us
I want
a room full
of windows
faced north
I watch moths
perch breed
on brown sticks
once named
dahlias or
bats bite
the heads
off beetles
in the dim eaves
of the porch
nourishment is
a brief moment
before this hard knot
in my chest
Dillon Thomas Clark is a writer, editor, and educator from New Jersey. Currently, they live in Tucson, Arizona where they are a MFA student at the University of Arizona and Editor-in-Chief of Sonora Review. They were named a finalist for the 2021 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry hosted by Philadelphia Stories and were a 2023 Southwest Field Studies in Writing Fellow. Their work appears in the tiny, Southwest Field Studies "From the Field," and is forthcoming in Cobra Milk.