The Intercepted Missive
I woke as my own pronoun being swept
into a gutter. A silhouette on the wind stuck to
the moth’s rigid banners.
Dear Beginning of a Plural Blur,
have you watched the mountain dwindle?
Have you separated houses of flame from houses
of smoke?
Nobody lives in your mouth. They drowned in your homogeneous
vat.
Nobody floats. Nobody can burn down the stranger’s
hut.
Dear Fire, Dear Meat, stand inside my circle
of ink. Stand inside my bandaged mouth. I am not
your flagship.
Dear Gunsmith’s Notebook, I am your body’s
recipe. My life is a flat stone. Nobody will toast
the robbers as they ride into the colorless flame
of language.
Connor Fisher
Connor Fisher is the author of The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and four poetry and hybrid chapbooks including Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, 2022). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Random Sample Review, Tammy, Tiger Moth Review, and Clade Song. He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.