Instead of facts, I have this body
that can speak. This body has spoken,
has uttered within written law,
toggling on and off who here
is human, who here are we. Unwritten parts
from where I do not speak
is where you read. I’m toggled
off, thus, this body—always perceived
to dare to continue, to continue
to dare to do.
Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in Cherry Tree, The Drift, The Cortland Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow.