Liam Strong
anti-poem
breach of contract. when the lightning has no follower. no iota of thrum. your father tells me he doesn't know what the words mean or why i snap them like twigs underfoot. it's false rhyme, a story sans story. your father barely opens his maw at a mention of the name. etymology: [powhm]. currant seeds, pummeled. pom, flutter of confetti. the colander stretched like trout over a spit, the sink about to slip. so with wisdom means no excitement. he must think i'm a sad person. in the evening, you have to help him with the insulin. he hobbles around like a poem. but he'd take offense, i'm sure, you're sure. his arm a curtain, him a curtain, his heavy cheeks a curtain. the sun finds its way in. even when it's not out.
Bio
Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cottagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook everyone's left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impossible Archetype and Emerald City, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan.