cancer poem #4 by Ed Go

cancer poem #4

by Ed Go

hush · issue 5

A poem titled cancer poem #4 by Ed Go. Text with alternating indentation: brick of my bone & bone / of my brick / what scissor can cut thru / bone+brick / extracting bones / [indented] build my house of / bone+brick / grind my bones to dust+snuff / to make the brick of bone / brickshaped & heavy / [indented] building my house [of bone] / & live in this house til / [indented] blooddrug coils / til bonebricks crumble / [indented] a million centuries / &still— / from the north the northern / [indented] lights fill the north / ice forming on bone— / bone of my bone / brickblood unflowing / tumors build walls

Ed Go

Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in MA, VA, AK, HI and CT. A former video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer, mystery shopper, and lead singer/guitar-player in a punk-folk band, Ed Go currently lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been published in various online and print journals and anthologies; his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id was published in 2014 by Other Rooms Press, and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards in 2016 by Urbantgarde Press.