Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), a poetry collection about gender, sexuality, class, and pro wrestling. Their work has appeared in Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, and elsewhere. Carver Johnson graduated from Hendrix College and currently lives in Tulsa, where they host the People’s Poetry reading series dedicated to protest poetics.
Photo by Michel Banabila / FlickrDinosaurs
Each day, I drive beneath the shadow
of leviathan bones, concrete muscles
poured over rebar ribcage, fossils
of future freeways. I walk through
the unnatural…
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