Good Night, and: Good Morning
- Good Night, and: Good Morning
Good Night
sickening to sleep • mal de mer • meridian • equator • intersect water light • coordinates align • lazily constellate • be balletic • calculations patter(n) • morse code pulse • coal burns • flulike • calenture is clumsily drowning on cartography • when scent of sea is sort of a green • good night [End Page 158]
Good Morning
turtles crawl to the horizon wrong • deep sea fishermen confuse squid to surface • oil rigs take terns off their course as lepidoptera stumble drunk in neon • gas jets get cloudy with starlings • the bats dine over baseball diamonds • opossums cross headlit • hamburgers held in their jaws • the drive-thru diners queue like wagons hiding fire • good morning [End Page 159]
Justin Runge lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he serves as poetry editor of Parcel. He is the author of two chapbooks, Plainsight (New Michigan Press, 2012) and Hum Decode (forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press). Recipient of a 2014 Langston Hughes Award, Runge has published in Linebreak, Diagram, Harpur Palate, Best New Poets 2013, and elsewhere. He can be found at www.justinrunge.me.
