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Poetry

Which Is To Say

by Scott F. Parker

Reading Joe Hughes
reading Deleuze
reading Nietzsche,
which is to say
reading Joe Hughes
reading Deleuze
reading Deleuze,
which is (presumably) to say
reading Joe Hughes
reading Joe Hughes
reading Joe Hughes,
I’m suddenly overcome
by the urge
to draw a bigger
circle
and keep reading
until my reading is read
and these words
not erased but
buried beneath
a palimpsest
for the ghost
in the text.

Scott F. Parker’s most recent book, A Way Home (Kelson), explores time, home, & selfhood in a series of personal essays.