Literary Orphans

Ambush on the Florida Turnpike by Jonathan Duckworth

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Suddenly, a storm.
So much lightning
I could be in a plasma lamp.
Rain cuts my visibility;
I’m like an Antarctic icebreaker
surging through a fogbank.
Is that a cat’s tail descending,
or the embryo of a tornado?

At a point I start bargaining
—just let me get through this—
but I don’t have a God,
so no clue who I’m bargaining with.
Probably someone like Superman
or maybe Mr. Clean.
You know: an authority figure.

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth is an MFA student at Florida International University, where he serves as a reader and copy-editor for the Gulf Stream Magazine. His fiction and poetry appears in or is forthcoming in Sliver of Stone, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Penny Dreadful, Synaesthesia, and Gravel: A Literary Journal among others.

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