Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine. His work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and he is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).
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America as ever-burning forest
can you see
this from the moon?
if something is out
there, tell them
turn around
before
we witness
the light
that indicates
they’ve already died.
i’d rather see wet,
blank expanse,
not wonder at
salvation’s timing.
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ISACOUSTIC* 