“Poverty causes crime and crime causes poverty.” -Larry Krasner Far deadlier than nightshade, masked by dusk's shadows need waits, one in the chamber for the concealed carriers. He didn't want to create brain matter confetti, but the matter in his brain fired its neurons to this end. It wasn't want that led him here so much as happenstance. Not desire or whimsy so much as perpetual pawn-status. As waking to discover the whole world was still uphill.
Zebulon Huset is a public high school teacher, writer and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Meridian, Smartish Pace, The Southern Review, Fence and others. He edits the prompt-based Sparked Literary Magazine.