slept in the hostilewoke in the hostile
buffalo nickel on a hard rail
glooming more and morethe gesture
jackals behind every door
midnight moonlight with too much metal in it
when will it be cowboy again?
lariats of oxygenand a straight shot
wordwordwordnot this crawl space antler
cowering
I am myself as potent as a bran flake
let’s heave that cocoonand see where it lands
Dennis Hinrichsen’s twelfth book, dementia lyrics, will appear from Green Linden Press in early 2026. His previous books include Dominion + Selected Poems, Flesh-plastique and schema geometrica. He has new poems appearing or forthcoming in American Literary Review, Blackbird, Moon City Review, Notre Dame Review, Posit and Waxwing. He lives in Lansing, Michigan.
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