High Capacity Clip
- High Capacity Clip
We will dress our murdered children for their commencement ceremonies, read a brief summation of accomplishments, recall their pulsing vessels, remember what shambles their stuttering recitals made of the lesson plan.
The graduating seniors’ cries sent us sprinting for shelter. Intimates torn from their embraces marched on swollen feet to search for sounds of breathing under perforated torsos.
We will attend their corpses, a shampoo and rinse, lotions to lubricate rigid skin. We’ll face them toward the lectern in this half-empty hall in cozy seats upright still as stalks of dry reed. [End Page 64]
Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published a letterpress collection of his microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work has appeared in about fifty journals including the Georgetown Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, Floating Bridge Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate.
