Trevor Burrows"Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
they reached through the windshield to pull me out
they instead grabbed handfuls of confetti.
After the last of that came the poultry--
the rubber chickens and ducks that moaned
in a chorus as they were scooped into the men's arms
as if they dreaded for their lives to be saved.
Then came the great men of history--Caesar,
Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ben Franklin,
together with their wives, who they led carefully
to be sure their skirts didn't catch
on the jagged glass. Then my boyfriend was pulled out, shrugging."
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-- Excerpt from the beginning of "Wreck" by Stefania Gomez
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Terrific opening poem from the new issue of Poetry Magazine, May 2025, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Go find a copy -- it's worth it for the full text of this poem alone, I think!
