Davy Knittle: Tense Future
Ant Rozetsky
[tense future]
your birthday is so soon I’m scared of it
of slipping I thought of you and elsewhere
people in their underwear that we know
elsewhere Ada is eating Elyse’s
clean ones Ada’s a bulldog Boston mix
Elyse mixed Boston driving and left it
we mixed Philly with Ohio and miles
Ohio mixed was Ohio tilted
like a flight when someone else points the V
Iowa is Iowa it’s still there
we are not moved on from our weird pining
we move on each other on an air bed
in our house apart from our sleeping friend
try to host well but it’s hard not to squeak
Davy Knittle's poems and reviews have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Fence, Jacket2, Denver Quarterly and The Iowa Review. His second chapbook, "empathy for cars / force of july" was published by horse less press in April 2016. He lives in Philadelphia where he curates the City Planning Poetics series at the Kelly Writers House.
