Hunter Lewinski
Usufruct
so serenity soft
serenity could be
snowy owl, marsh mud
– between the spine
the sallow postcard
cleaved, thumbing open
the book
pg.
72, Paine:
the means must be
an obliteration of knowledge;
and it has never yet been
discovered,
how to make man unknow
why I associate posterity with the cold
and tragedy with museums
what am I but
a schematic of forgetting
drawn with
the haunted etching
of horses’ hair &
the blistering horizon
& the drip
of perspiration off
my nose, watching it peel
like paint chipping off
my face, my face painted with
the paint of myself
also chipping off.
Hunter Lewinski is a student at Hamilton College studying Creative Writing and History. Outside of writing, Hunter co-hosts a college radio program and plays guitar in the Hamilton College Jazz Band. His work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Riggwelter, By&By Poetry, Fourth & Sycamore, and Anon Magazine.
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