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The Rip






If I
grip for none-

ness, one
less, the side-
walk takes
to water.

Stray bass
tilts the rust-

lake, rented
ringing
in my index,

think-
stain-
veined, up-

stream petals
tamped

between re-
ticulated 
spines—

Double-
nighted
brackish
one

A rising
tide rever-
tebrates our

cardiac
deposit



John Bosworth is a writer from west Texas. He is the recipient of the 2018 Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, & a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Philadelphia.