Brian Tierney, Third Place winner of Narrative’s Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and was awarded the 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Raised in Philadelphia, he lives in Oakland, California, where he teaches poetry at the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University.

The Legend of Zelda

by Brian Tierney

With a fork, I lop off the head of my dragon-
shaped pancake. My brother eats the sun
of his over-easy egg with a bit of burnt toast.
All we wanna do is play Nintendo till it’s dark out and can’t,

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