No empath

Bryan d. price

ice cube tray wilts in the sink like everything
else dog eats bird I should shower but I believe
I will shower at midnight when the moon is
cold something grates pricks at the conscience
or soul the preservation of a continuing assent
a trying to be your animal a kind of mystical
inwardness carried on droplets—on found sounds
excavated from AM radio (late night) eerie
furniture music aural visions of a future with no
ability to fathom sleep as it was intended no
sacred cycle of rebirth and decay…days are now
valleys and only beyond the aubade line do we display
our grief—perform it like the art of memory

Bryan D. Price's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Posit, the UCity Review, the Inflectionist Review, and others. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife, a dog, and a cat named for Pina Bausch.