From the Archive: Matt Rader (CAROUSEL 34)
MATT RADER
Lunar New Year’s Day,
Year of the Snake
– for Eduardo C. Corral
The cross steepling St. George’s is so empty.
Meanwhile, vultures cyclone
Their shadows motherfucking slowly.
Meanwhile, five bison
Skulls on the barn wall sport one
Or two small black annuities
Terminating where their brains
Would be.
Meanwhile, fingerprints, Charybdis, drains. Again,
All good fortune is wealth,
All ill fortune the ouroboros of luck feeding
Itself itself.
St. George’s is so lonely evenings
After the Narcotics Anonymous meetings.

Lunar New Year’s Day, Year of the Snake
appeared in CAROUSEL 34 (2015) — buy it here
