Ran

I crashed through clouds of insects

on my riverside run and carried some

away from their copulation

 

and the rising warmth of a sodden bank.

Were they me, humans, I’d name the juggernaut

of my body a natural disaster

 

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Clayton Adam Clark

Clayton Adam Clark lives in St. Louis, his hometown, where he works as a mental health counselor. His debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the Moon City Poetry Award and was published by Moon City Press. He earned the MFA in poetry at Ohio State University and a master’s in clinical mental health counseling at University of Missouri–St. Louis.