by Dustin Brookshire
Inspired by Beth Gylys’s “Three Poems”
Ex 1
* Block *
Ex 2
All we had was lust.
Ex 3
I’m no longer attracted to broken things.
Dustin Brookshire’s chapbooks include Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021), and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). He is the co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023), which was named to the 2024 “Books All Georgians Should Read” list by the Georgia Center for the Book. Find him online at dustinbrookshire.com.
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