Automaton in the Plenum Desert
We bad for machines. We can’t depend on fingers. / We can postcard into mock rainforests // but no one wants to tell / how hurt they really are.
Poem published in Not My Style
We bad for machines. We can’t depend on fingers. / We can postcard into mock rainforests // but no one wants to tell / how hurt they really are.
Poem published in Not My Style
Mike Bagwell is a form of mutual antagonism towards the sky, a writer, and software engineer in Philly. He received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and his work appears in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, Okay Donkey, Tyger Quarterly, THRUSH, Annulet, and others. He is the author of chapbooks A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap), Or Else They Are Trees (El Aleph), and micros from Ghost City and Rinky Dink. He runs a reading series Ghost Harmonics in Philly. Find him at mikebagwell.me, @low_gh0st, or playing dragons with his daughters.