Brian Clifton: Holy Diver

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Holy Diver

—after Dio

Something
dying

Never dies

For you
something
coming to 

Mean
something

For you
never 

To mean 
it dies
I see

Something
never dies

For you
it never
dies

It is
coming

For you
it never

Dies
something 
dies

It is
coming

Something dies

It never
comes

For you
It is coming
for you

It never 
dies

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Brian Clifton is the author of the chapbooks MOT and Agape (from Osmanthus Press). They have work in: Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. They are an avid record collector and curator of curiosities.