In Midnight’s hour I take my tongue
and place it on the floor.

(It loves to run about and play
with Beetle, Dung, and Spore.)

Then Teeth and I sit back and smile,
enlivened by the show—

And laugh aloud when Tongue cries out:
“Oh, my! I’ve stubbed my toe!”

Selected byNolcha Fox
Image credit:Rudi Fargo
Matt Dennison

After a rather extended and varied second childhood in New Orleans

(street musician, psych-tech, riverboat something-or-other, door-to-door

poetry peddler, etc.), Matt Dennison finished his undergraduate degree at

Mississippi State University where he won the National Sigma Tau Delta

essay competition (judged by X.J. Kennedy). He is the author of Kind Surgery

from Urtica Press (Fr.) and  Waiting for Better from Main Street Rag Press.

His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine,

Redivider, The National Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Modern Haiku, Tulane

Review, The Inflectionist Review, DIAGRAM, Hiram Poetry Review, Slipstream,

The Midwest Quarterly and Cider Press Review, among others. His fiction has

appeared in ShortStory Substack, THEMA, GUD, The Blue Crow (Aus), Prole (UK),

The Wondrous Real and Story Unlikely. He has also made poetry videos with

Michael Dickes, Marc Neys, Jutta Pryor & Marie Craven.

 

Kind Surgery (Urtica Press)

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