is a phone
is a screen—a screen
whose Windows won’t
screen anything—
Your suicidal sundial grows bright
as a clockradio
whose phone has synced
Her calendar
to a pulpy Almanac
Josh A. Brewer’s writing appears in Natural Bridge; Southeast Rev.; RHINO; Yemassee; Poetry Quarterly; Booth; Poets Against War; Common Ground Rev.; Sargasso, and a publication of the Modern Languages Association. He’s an associate professor of English at Ivy Tech, Lafayette, and he has taught at Purdue University, University of South Carolina, Tennessee State, Aquinas College, and the University of Miami.