You’ve suffered me—
I have recoiled you—
Memory-stone—Gorgon record-skip
Matthew Moore is the translator of Tomaž Šalamun's Opera Buffa, forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2021. His poems appear in and are forthcoming from literary magazines including The Carolina Quarterly, Fence, Guesthouse, NOON: journal of the short poem, and Second Stutter. He holds degrees from Kenyon College and the Michener Center for Writers. He was born in Illinois.