Bio
Jake Onyett is a U.S. Navy veteran who was born in Canada, raised in the United States, and currently lives in Italy. He is a graduate of Niagara University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Bologna. His poetry appears/will appear in Ink in Thirds, Lone Mountain Literary Society, and Stone Poetry Quarterly, among other publications.
Jake Onyett
Detours
The bore of the quest for preservation
Leads to some irresistible detours
None are blind, everything is beheld
A bouquet of blameless beggars
Chewing softly on bitter cyanide apple seeds
The logical, the delinquent
Are mongrel buds on the same unraveled tongue
Lapping up the frothy presentation
Commissioned by overlords
As absent or as present
As the dumb glare of caution tape
That you sidestep and repair
The wise winking of wilted orchids
Willful, searching, finished, and found