my raucous is lynchpin snoring
my baby unborn and living inside a phone booth
my birthday candles floating down the grievous cooking oil Nile
my cranial gearshift in hock
cotton gins of stringed compliance
holding the scorpion to paltry tongues
the 25th letter of the alphabet never consulted
my stammering yellow freefall
my legs of someone else’s
kicking.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his other half and mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Word Riot, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
–Art by Thomas H