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Such Great Concern



   


Such great concern, great concern waiting for us on the other side of the ellipses . . .

I believe the pressure inside my head will one day turn my brain into a diamond . . .

His barrel held no fish, laughs or monkeys. No one could figure out what his barrel was for . . .

Why would you ever want to shoot a fish, anyway . . .

When I see the word ‘riparian’ I imagine a vegetarian who’s almost ripe . . .

Grazing the banks of a river that will never find the ocean . . .

The ocean where his brain should’ve been never did have a lot of a fish in it . . .

Such great concern, great concern in the water around here . . .






Kevin Chesser is a poet and musician who lives in West Virginia. His work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Passages North, elsewhere, Only Poems, BRUISER, Hobart, and other places. His second collection of poems, (Please Consider These) Alternate Names for the Moon, is forthcoming fall 2026 from Pulley Press.