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Issue 4

Cover Art by Jaqueline Evans-Shaw

HISTORY AS AN OBSOLETE GLOBE

2/19/2023

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Joseph Meads
For instance:
a pack 
of 10,000 
wild dogs
(that’s 40,000
canine teeth)

surrounds us –
& you bow 
your head
forward, 
toward
my right ear –
to whisper, 
like a ghost
or the ghost 
of a just felled tree:
I too am colorblind...  träume ich noch en Deutsch.

Joseph Lee Meads is a diagnosed schizophrenic and currently an MA student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has previously been published in Columbia Poetry Review, Chicago Literati, Lover's Eye Press and elsewhere. He posts images of his muted television onto Instagram: @joseph.lee.m
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