HeyJaredAdam Neikirk
Poet, scholar, and teacher. Academic on the job market. Former editor at Muscaliet Press; researching Brit Romanticism; check out Songs for the Dead (2023) and Itchy (2022) for more of my work!
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from “Moon Museum” (opens the original)
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So all the next dayI felt like a surfer who had learnedThat there wasn’t any oceanAs our friend told usAbout spider-web linesDespiriting his visionIn a small window at the topThe pipes of the church organCould barely be seenWe lingered there togetherBoth too sad to sayHow sad it made us feelThe sound was likeSomeone’s kid had got onThe hidden part of the organMaking a deep, low, pleading toneRise up from behindThe photo-realistic MoonThe deep tone running throughEveryt
Lessons for You (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIt can be so hard, if it feels Like the sun has decided not to shine, Like the wind is against you, And the beaches are falling off the edge. If it feels, on a lonely ledge Like your body wants to stop, or like You’ve had too much to smoke or drink, Or have been sober for too long And your brain is all dried out and crusted Like a key whose fangs have rusted. Sometimes for days and nights The rough persists, The heroes and k
Quests [WIP] (opens the original)
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1The large, red, fluffy, infinitely softDown-filled pillow bed which you adoredLaying in the big, wide, open, high loft,Spreading its edges to the bookcase door:Jump in like a pile of leaves—allOf them are red, having fallen downTo the scoring winter, which sang in the hall,Over the stairs, and soil-black ground,A carpet, which you once followedHands pocketed like sheaths,To the forest where the wood wonders, How Long can I hold the wind in my leaves?That scouring wind which touches whatever it
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