What time is it?
6:14.
Will you transcend
the gravitational limitations
of the universe, the universe
broiled like an all-beef patty
on a hemlock bun, or will you
opt for larvae spun tight as a knuckle
of virgin garlic stuck in the middle
of another Sunday Spanish mass?
You there?
Yes.
So?
Not so much the corporate all-beef patty,
but spinning like a larva of garlic . . . !
Allan Britt: In August 2015 Alan Britt was invited by the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamín Carrión in Quito, Ecuador as part of the first cultural exchange of poets between Ecuador and the United States. In 2013 he served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 15 books of poetry, his latest being Violin Smoke (Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Romania: 2015). He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.