- Destrudo
The ball and crane. Ten thousand poundsof steel held in suspense. The boom and chain.The little man in the cab. The clutch. The release.One of the most common forms of large-scale demolition.Massive. Elemental. The arc and accelerando, the agon,the wrack of contact. Again. Again. Again. [End Page 77]
Nausheen Eusuf is a PhD candidate in English at Boston University, and a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has appeared in Rattle, Southwest Review, PN Review, Literary Imagination, World Literature Today, and other journals, and her chapbook What Remains was published by Longleaf Press.