I am vast / I contain multitudes

By D.W. Baker

I contain multitudes

point in time

filter out

overcrowd

realign

certain size

count noun

place bound

deadline

named selves

border fence

sit beside

split cells

future tense

say goodbye

I am vast

waveform

plosives

petrichor

slow sips

regular

mass noun

leveller

slow down

herd sense

fluid I

coalesce

holotype

present tense

cyclic time


D.W. Baker is a poet and editor from St. Petersburg, Florida, where he writes about place, bodies, belonging, and the end of the world. His work appears in Identity Theory, Feral Poetry, horror senryu journal, and Black Glass Pages, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. He reads for several mastheads including Variant Lit and Divinations Magazine, and recently edited GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body for The Circus Collective. See more of his work at www.dwbakerpoetry.com

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