local_library The Bicycle Man

by David Appelbaum

Published in Issue No. 276 ~ May, 2020

the bicycle man

pumps

the universe

made of strings

plucked

like an Irish harp

not certain

of a voice: om

he splices

two streets together

for a high

C

mi

dark matter

fills his lungs

black hole-gullet

errancy

is in his delivery

pouch

mine?

light contracts

red torus to

green

his is this event

the next

epoch

twitters

the same

note

flat

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David Appelbaum has worked in the university and in publishing, and is an author who specializes in the work of writing. His most recent books include notes on water: an aqueous phenomenology [Monkfish, 2018].