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Arthur Solway’s poetry and essays have appeared in The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, BOMB, The London Magazine, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He was cited among the 2018 finalists for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, finalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Award in 2019, and the 2020 finalist for Anhinga Press-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, his critical reviews, profiles, and cultural essays have also been featured in Artforum, Frieze, and Art Asia Pacific magazines. Winner of the 2019 Tu...

How to rebuild me when I fall apartAfter Roger ReevesI want a spine a gun barrel throat. A voice with steel boots.I want to command a lover who leaves devours me.I want to rent my body to a soul brave to be naked in this body in the street.

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The night-locked dusk clicked shut.The cool air rose like a stone.At last, my voices echoed through the high,miraculous chamber. And the iconographycut me, breathlesssymmetry.This kingdomis fraught with the skeptical—the stem before the gold-bloomed leafwhose colorthe cathedral imitates.The dusky grove. The dragon andthe greyhound, caught in their infinite chasethrough the

Before bed, my smallyets ask if I’ll meet themat the signpost we create in sleep, & whenthey wake, they’ll ask do I remember.I take us to the cliffing place, dip our wasp-stung faces toward the wind. It licks us till we brine.We dream the world won’t end.Not till the glob we’ve wadded in our pocketsis stuck safe behind our ears. Till that gumballmachine, infection-pink, has