8/18/2020 POETRY: TYLER ENGSTRÖM'SNONE OF THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR ANYTHING In the car I traced the power lines with my fingers and hopped over the poles like little toads real little jumpers like the ones we collected together before the marsh was condos that must’ve been 25 years ago today it feels longer we were born under the high watermark and knew what that meant how many metaphors do you need to make sense of a dying planet? at least one more? at least one more nothing gets to the point I’m trying to make, there is no such thing as real sacrifice anymore the difference between fake blood and real blood is roughly how much we’ll pay for it Tyler Engström's first book of poetry, Thee Golden Age of the Internet, is forthcoming from Frontenac House in 2021. He was a 2017 finalist for the Writer's Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and his writing has been found in FreeFall Magazine, Freq Magazine, and the poetry anthology Drifting Like a Metaphor: Calgary Poets of Promise. @tylrengstrom
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