BLOOD

Poetry by Ken Been

Color photo of bloody handprint on plywood (Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash)


a carpenter's pencil

on a sheet of plywood

across

two

saw

horses

the stain picks up the grain nicely

measured twice




BIO: Ken Been’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies. A sampling includes LIT Magazine, Stone Poetry Quarterly, October Hill Magazine, Arlington Literary Journal, The Headlight Review, Kestrel, Plainsongs, Poetica Magazine, Drunk Monkeys and Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is from Detroit, which – in a quirk of geography – is north of its border with Canada.

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