Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Eviscerator by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

The parts blown away from the child
do not make a new child,
this is not cellular mitosis

the walls of bombed out buildings
piled high in the street like toy blocks

and through a wash of dust
I see the living feasting on the dead,
crouched in a circle chewing on charred
limbs                  

their faces gaunt
and sunken

like a swimming pool
emptied of all its
water.



Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Walking Is Still Honest, Red Eft Review, and Anti-Heroin Chic.

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