that is the best thing you have.

Hurried violins

whisper

open our world.

Multipliers help me

understand

it’s important to push oneself into the future.

A way to get more people

in your dream

is to get your hands on a lot more people.

That was the first skin of my family.

I have no doubt, the last is

the same as a bad movie.

Lights

go camping

before the End

and I have to go get a lot more wood.

Every month,

thereafter,

I envisioned a structure that would suck it out.

Tyler Dempsey is the author of a book of poems called “Newspaper Drumsticks.” He lives in a glacier in Alaska. Not really. Really. He’s a fiction reader over at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. Find him on Twitter @tylercdempsey.