Jenkin Benson
I Saw You (Western EST vs. Eastern EST)
as I shaved drain-worshiper
miry whiskers phlegm seltzers
glob intimacy hand mirror scald
I saw another you cafeteria below my desk
sucktonguing bowl of lentils
spit drop chili stain photo
I saw some you Northern Indiana
faint you parasailing you snowsand low
you corpse in the harness moist float
you’ll never careen lakeward
but you’ll want to Michigan trachea
you’ll look down you’ll leer
I’ll let you enroot
glimpses allome vile clods
across the Midwest wrong as me
Jenkin Benson is a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. He principally studies the creative interchange between Welsh and Irish modernists. He occasionally writes poetry. You can find his work in the New Note Poetry, The /temz/ Review, and KEITH LLC.