Eugene Gloria’s recent works have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and the Best American Poetry 2014. His third collection, My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012), received the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry. He teaches creative writing and English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
illustration: francis estrada
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A wall diademed with broken glass can tear the skinof anyone who dares to scale the wall
Hot box for a house, a tinderbox of electric fans …