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We Be Ludere

The root-tune of our being being this nightsweltering in the boybunks.

 

Owl-absonant sensesurround of sweatshine and moonklieg insomnia both.

 

The mustangy (shin-shank) clash of us hopped-up spiral-eyed on sun-tea and the sugars.

 

« en garde your ownself you I could kill you again easy »

 

Unsweet unsmotherable systole-diastole (and back again) (and so forth)

 

of the instigator v. the aggravoked; unbridleable-arterial
 


brotherbeat

 

of kick-poke (and pester-choke and parry) play at play.

Copyright © 2025 by Atsuro Riley. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 28, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. Randall Mann is the Guest Editor of August. Read or listen to a Q&A with Mann about his curatorial process, and learn more about the 2025 Guest Editors. Support Poem-a-Day.  

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