Casey Clague is my first featured poet who is local to me here in the Tampa Bay area. They just completed their MFA in Creative Writing from University of South Florida. Listen to them read a couple of poems and learn more about their future goals and their interest in literary criticism and what they do for the local literary/art community in Tampa.
Casey Clague holds an MFA from the University of South Florida. They live in Tampa where they cofounded the Read Herring reading series and serve as Assistant Poetry Editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection. Critical and creative work appears or is forthcoming in Action, Spectacle; Permafrost; Gravel; New Writing; and elsewhere.
Darling, according to
physics,
with the air pulled out
from around
our atoms
and the atoms compressed,
we could fit in a sugar
cube.
Humanity, I mean.
The skin-bound
divisions
of us.
Finally, the closeness
we sought
when we
pricked
our fingers to make blood
brothers and sisters.
What we came close to in
sex
but even then
were
separated
by a silk-thin veil of
sweat.
Before entropy sends its
tendrils
through our blank spaces,
crushes down our bodies
in city buses and
offices,
let’s draw out the dead air.
Forget it like a hymn.
Don’t say:
In that viewless room
we would all just face
the center. What would
we do
with ourselves?
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