STACY SZYMASZEK

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press) and is the director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (New York City).

a guy launched an insult
out his car window

and peeled off into
the fireworks show

I was holding the camera

his car was eaten by
a pink chrysanthemum

I tore the group photos
into bits of confetti

for a gay politician


(from "Commune of S")