will replace it
before the day
When ants attack
is out. And then
a termite mound,
there’s the old
they kill and carry
poet in Merthyr
home only plunder
Tydfil, Wales, who
enough to prompt
unpins his heart
more eggs from
from his sleeve
their queen, even
and presses it
as her opposite
between the pages
among the enemy
of his Deaths and
ramps up production
Entrances, unaware
to replace those
that, at the same moment,
lost on her side.
a young girl
Likewise, when
in Casper, Wyoming,
you kick a cat,
becomes convinced
her potential energy
that the stars out
transforms into
her bedroom window
kinetic, and nothing
on that late-August
will be lost should
night are pinpricks,
she return to smother
are marble eyes, fire-
you in your sleep.
folk or swift horses,
A shark that leaves
and that, god help us,
a triangular tooth
she must make it
in the ass of his
her life to tell us so.
harbor-seal meal
Balance
Wade lives, teaches, and writes in Salt Lake City. For a good time, he enjoys
wandering the Wasatch Mountains and playing with his grandchildren. His poems
have appeared or are forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review,
Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Rattle, Chicago
Quarterly Review, Raleigh Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Pembroke Magazine, and New Orleans Review, among others. A full-length collection of his
poems, What Is Mine, was published by Aldrich Press in January of 2015.