Metropolist

Bryce Emley


……i.

furrowed brow

…………….amber sky

……ii.

empty room…….flat line of silence

……iii.

yellow streetlamp

…..chloroplast shade

…………………….for a tree

……iv.

gas station glow cauterizing night

……v.

two notches in Orion’s Belt

a single eye of Pisces

……vi.

asphalt hands cupping yesterday’s rain

……vii.

dragging the sky for stars like sunken bones

……viii.

two ants on my bathroom floor

…..one in a vacant web

……………………………………………..seizuring


Bryce Emley is a graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where he’s an editorial assistant for The Florida Review and Managing Editor of 12:51 magazine. His writing can or can soon be found in 5×5, The Unrorean, Slipstream, Pleiades, and the M.O.P.E.s Musings anthology.

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