Verdad Magazine Volume 30
Spring 2021, Volume 30
Poetry by Cameron Morse
Side Effects
Antarctic shotgun
tundra blasting
white sand
fiber in my eyes
[fiber optics]
layers of snow
flayed from roofs
shelter in the shed
with Theo
overwhelmed
Symptom or side effect
I am beside
myself I am not my
self right now
washing machine
repeating the same cycle
endlessly
spinning draining rinsing
again, again, &
how much riced
cauliflower will I scrape
with my bare hands
out of the sink
I poured it into before
I sink my head
into the polyester flap
of my bathrobe
hide my face in its
fuzzy wing
The self I am not I am
beside
I am bed side
or at some unknown
proximity
A Ghost Story
BIO: Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and two children in Independence, Missouri. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, Portland Review and South Dakota Review. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Far Other (Woodley Press, 2020). He holds and MFA from the University of Kansas City—Missouri and serves as Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and Poetry editor at Harbor Editions.