Chris McCreary

Chris McCreary is the author of several books and chapbooks including the chapbook Maris McLamoureary’s Dictionnaire Infernal (Empty Set Press), co-authored with Mark Lamoureux (issue six contributor). His new book of poems, awry, was recently released by White Stag. He lives in South Philadelphia and on IG at @chris___mccreary.

Autofloragraphia

I cried for the wild flowers because I am

of a less hearty cultivar.

I gratified my masters

by grafting gaffes

until their displeasures

became bouquets.

I've survived by weaving wreathes I'd leave

for free beside the highway.

Lameant

Let face save the feelings
wheel : we delete

what spun. I am nothing
if not

small & strategically
oblique. I mean,

forth-
right’s wronged off

& on. I meant to tell you
from the whelm. How those

postcards wrote themselves
in an embarrassment

of declaratives. Zipped it
in a different code.