POETRY This is the song POETRY “When I Am the Reaper” & “A Leadspray of Starlings” POETRY “the public pales / and pales you like meat in the wolf maw, snatches the tongue / out from under and dresses its windows in your shade”
When I Am Queen
in the song they thought they knew,
had picked it up on their stroll of mere centuries
until she, not a history, still writing,
wrote it on the floor. And it is too late.
Two Poems by
Justin Phillip Reed
They Speak of the Body and One Sits Up Straight
Justin Phillip Reed
Justin Phillip Reed’s second book of poems, The Malevolent Volume, is forthcoming April 2020 from Coffee House Press.
