This is the ninth installment of Bonus Cut Poetry, a new series that features original poems by Bonus Cut staff, artists and YOU! In this series, our mission is to bring people together in poetry, share stories and display wonderful artistic pieces. If you would like to have your poems in the next Bonus Cut Poetry installment, just email us at bonuscut@gmail.com
Our ninth installment features Bonus Cut’s own Justin Cook.
atlas
By: Justin Cook
feel these shoulders
head downcast from heaven.
who knew how heavy
an atom could be
split like a wishbone.
unfasten my back
spine arched, a swan neck
deformity in fingers. mountains
cavern shoulder blades
dulled.
till candles blow out i bear
the equator an ornamental halo.
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