Ethel
OFFHANDEDLY
by
ALEX BENEDICT
From the Cuyahoga Valley, Alex nested in the Cleveland area. He operates offset printers for a living and publishes books on receipt paper through betweenthehighway press. Currently, he is writing a biography of Cleveland publisher and poet d.a.levy.PURCHASE HERE
from OFFHANDEDLYtwisting loose
hidden silences:
a handful of heaven cannons a handful of blooming rice
arm crook’s open-pulse
burning the vowing
hand free intothis black lake