"Ben's Dead"

J. J. Lucyszyn

The sky is wrist red.

Who is below is new.

No bone or as god’s puppy

but now dreams ride me

like a daughter.

I am on a train under Stonehenge.

Song phones and heaven knows

on what is riding me.

He is

but I look on him as a man

when he sleeps.

The lad in green

won’t you come and be my queen?

I am a little girl

I have earned this, it’s just

we only lost him that morning

so green on that red.

Hello my trees


How did this poem begin for you?

This poem only ends.

J. J. Lucyszyn is a Ph.D. candidate at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Originally published:
September 25, 2024

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