Tuesday poem #196 : Aaron McCollough : New Prime

perfumed remains

dry in my raincoat

hardly a thing, a fleck

at the hole in an eggshell

the new prime, as sad as ever

Aaron McCollough is the author of several books of poems, most recently Rank (University of Iowa Press, 2015) and Underlight (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012). With Karla Kelsey, he co-publishes SplitLevel Texts (splitleveltexts.com). He lives sometimes in Urbana, Illinois and sometimes in Washington, DC.

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