Silencio
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Timothy Michalik
The man walking alone in Portuguese flannel
The baby who finds a rattlesnake in the oven
The seamstress elevating her Ringo Star bomber
The crisp echo in the parking lot
The lipstick red 2001 Volkswagen
Er, fɔlksˌvaːɡŋ̍
The melting, half-eaten banana split
The missing pączki
The big brother’s cognac stash
The lost epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke
The physician’s assistant’s insane cholesterol
My sweet locket chowing down tompouce
My ass thrown onto her gunwale
My mind’s eye, abandoning me inside the hamlet
Her pearlish robe slipped off to the ass, shoulders
A giant child growing into my sadness
Timothy Michalik
is the founding editor of Copenhagen and Food. They wrote Picaresque (Press Break) and live between Chicago and New York.
