7 February, 2023
Ran
I crashed through clouds of insects
on my riverside run and carried some
away from their copulation
and the rising warmth of a sodden bank.
Were they me, humans, I’d name the juggernaut
of my body a natural disaster
7 February, 2023
I crashed through clouds of insects
on my riverside run and carried some
away from their copulation
and the rising warmth of a sodden bank.
Were they me, humans, I’d name the juggernaut
of my body a natural disaster
Clayton Adam Clark lives in St. Louis, his hometown, where he works as a mental health counselor. His debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the Moon City Poetry Award and was published by Moon City Press. He earned the MFA in poetry at Ohio State University and a master’s in clinical mental health counseling at University of Missouri–St. Louis.