Todd Dillard's work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Electric Literature, Fairy Tale Review, The Adroit Journal, Hobart, and Wigleaf. His debut collection of poetry Ways We Vanish was released by Okay Donkey Press in March of 2020. His lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

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Autumn

By TODD DILLARD

It is hard to not hate
myself, the self who’d rather/ turn inward as dusk spirals
into its Tang dissolve. And isn’t ruin, too,/ a thing to celebrate?