Listen, love, this is it.
The world will sing
all about hearts
cracking together

as an old concertina
of two express trains
kissing each other
on the lips. Grills

bent and bloodied
with each other’s
day-dreamt rust.
Do you feel me?

This isn’t it exactly,
but it gets too close
for a comforter to
cover each other’s

springs and cogs.
Try to keep them
from getting mixed
up with the bolts

and pistons. And
at the end of the day
the nuts get scattered
over the ground, in

some stone and gravel
ceremony. This is it—
bliss. Don’t lie to me,
love, you know it is.

Peter Burzyński, PhD (he/they) is the author of the chapbook A Year Alone inside of Woodland Pattern (Adjunct Press, 2022) as well as the co-poet of the obverse periodical DuetDuet Vol. 7. (pitymilk press, 2023). His first full-length book of poetry, Infinite Zero, will be published in 2024 by Writ Large Press. In Fall 2023 Burzyński will serve as a Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar in the Slovak Republic. He is the son of immigrants who call him on the phone every day.