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Volume 38, Issue 2
Volume 38, Issue 2

Red Birds the Size of Fists

It’s not like the sky’s not
enough. I see it out the window.
Blizzard blank. Pines trembling.
They might disappear. Which is
we might disappearing. What
living on planet here is like.
The popularity of science fiction.
All those photos without
our clothes on. Nothing in
the way between our skin.
A bowl of soup for breakfast,
smaller than a dinner portion.
We’re just getting started.
We have this myth the mail
will get through regardless.
If shipping a human heart
use wet ice and private couriers.
Soon drones. Some of us
waiting on slabs with holes
in our chest. Some of us sitting
in our basement, all these
hearts passing by overhead.

About Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal‘s poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fugue, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. Christopher is an Editorial Assistant for Seneca Review and lives in Syracuse, New York.

Zone 3 Press, the literary magazine of Austin Peay State University
Volume 38, Issue 2
Volume 38, Issue 2

Red Birds the Size of Fists

It’s not like the sky’s not
enough. I see it out the window.
Blizzard blank. Pines trembling.
They might disappear. Which is
we might disappearing. What
living on planet here is like.
The popularity of science fiction.
All those photos without
our clothes on. Nothing in
the way between our skin.
A bowl of soup for breakfast,
smaller than a dinner portion.
We’re just getting started.
We have this myth the mail
will get through regardless.
If shipping a human heart
use wet ice and private couriers.
Soon drones. Some of us
waiting on slabs with holes
in our chest. Some of us sitting
in our basement, all these
hearts passing by overhead.

Volume 38, Issue 2
Volume 38, Issue 2

Red Birds the Size of Fists

It’s not like the sky’s not
enough. I see it out the window.
Blizzard blank. Pines trembling.
They might disappear. Which is
we might disappearing. What
living on planet here is like.
The popularity of science fiction.
All those photos without
our clothes on. Nothing in
the way between our skin.
A bowl of soup for breakfast,
smaller than a dinner portion.
We’re just getting started.
We have this myth the mail
will get through regardless.
If shipping a human heart
use wet ice and private couriers.
Soon drones. Some of us
waiting on slabs with holes
in our chest. Some of us sitting
in our basement, all these
hearts passing by overhead.

About Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal‘s poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fugue, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. Christopher is an Editorial Assistant for Seneca Review and lives in Syracuse, New York.