Mark Bibbins is the author of the poetry collections The Dance of No Hard Feelings; Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award; and They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). He teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School and at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

We, the Reader

by Mark Bibbins

Murder is also singular, no flight inside. So much
rust on rust, the rest of the city secular and slow

as violets arrive—an accident, an argument in birdsong
suddenly ripe. Thrown shadows tell entire buildings:
People on couch
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