From the Archive: Nyla Matuk (CAROUSEL 33)
NYLA MATUK
On Distance and Heartbreak
Gift of grey from Man Ray,
my heart was the shape of Australia.
If p, then q. Incalculably wide marginalia.
Plain, upside, down under, safe as houses.
I didn’t trust the data accounts,
the ville fourmillante’s thousand mounts.
And that old dissonant airbus in the distance.
It smarted like a barrier reef of a wound.

On Distance and Heartbreak
appeared in CAROUSEL 33 (2014) — buy it here
