POEM OF THE DAY BY A.F. MORITZ

Your Idea of Embracing Horror

Your idea of embracing horror

was overwhelmed by the horror:

in the mild

milkiness of the afternoon, on the bluff

that commands a vision of bank towers

knifing up far higher than the rising, empty

shell of the moon ... on the height where you stand

and still can't understand your life

as anything but slow dying, your time seeps out

as into a warm bath, the way the exemplary career

of Petronius the Just—pornographer and satirist-

once leaked away.


-A. F. Moritz