I Drink RiversRunner-Up 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry.
"It felt god-like / to consume something squirming / and alive; as if I were born / for drinking."
Contest
poetry
Dante Novario
Poet based in Louisville, KY
Louisville, KY, United States
Selected work (30 publications)
Lucid Dreaming as Therapy"the honking grows like an chorus of annoying angels /
and no matter how many locks I’ve forged /
it's always the same; the clowns burst in"
poetry
The Many gods Who Rule Me"I’ve come to understand that the god of accidents /will gladly strip someone of their innocence / as quickly and cruelly as any god of intention"
Wish Coin"Mischievous copper wish / formed with a whisper, tossed silently down the well / mistakenly believing it had been freed"