The American Poetry Review (Digital)

The American Poetry Review (Digital)

1 Issue, November/December 2023

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HOPE—

like the drunk girlat the drag showtelling my boyfriendyou have beautifulbeautiful eyes, thenpulling a prepackagedmuffin from her coatpocket & handing itto him—howwe laughed& laughed at heruntil, at 2am,we walked pastCVS & sawit was closed, allits little bagsof pork rinds& popcorn unreachablebehind dark glass, &we sighed & putour drunk handsin our pockets& heardfrom one of those pocketsa crinkling, the ideaslowly dawning on usthat the girlmight have given ussomething we needed— Patrick Kindig teaches in the University Writing Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of the chapbooks all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019) and Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016), and his poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, Chattahoochee Review, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals.…
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