Listening

Pj Lombardo

Sank in the couch like a cloud overloaded
with another flood for another avenue
while blueprints fold inside each other

One knitfinger compression

to mow the lawn where my children circle
vulturic while i sleep
While i sleep, cyclonic records skip
and circle vulturic too
and when i wake i briefly ponder
all life set to clomp
off my sunset wingspan
So briefly it's decent and i'm smiling

Another flood, another problem
to clog up somebody else's sinking

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PJ Lombardo is the author of THE BLUE CHERUB (Cult House Books, 2026). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland and serves as co-founding editor of GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetry. Read his writing in Erratum Reviews, Coma Journal, Tagvverk, the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere.