Lake Effect, Spring 2016, Volume 20: "Enough of Losing"

Enough of Losing

by Brian Phillip Whalen



Today I’m reading Stephen Dunn beside      the pinging
                          radiator.
             My heart is garmented in parchment maps of my
                          mis-doings, my false-
idols, my one-too-many too-late red-flag sightings. Tonight
                         I’ll do push-
             ups in the street until my elbows                         break.