Chris Stolle
Waysides
Stack books
vertically
to suffocate them.
Use square bottles
to bend light
toward photosynthesis.
Turn Dali and Picasso
counterclockwise
to unlock their meaning.
Gaze downward
to find what stars
have left behind.
Remember to follow
these words
to the letter.
Christopher Stolle’s writing has appeared most recently in Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, Edify Fiction, Contour, The New Southern Fugitives, The Gambler, Gravel, The Light Ekphrastic, Sheepshead Review, and Plath Poetry Project. He works as an acquisitions and development editor for Penguin Random House, and he lives in Richmond, Indiana.
Waysides
Stack books
vertically
to suffocate them.
Use square bottles
to bend light
toward photosynthesis.
Turn Dali and Picasso
counterclockwise
to unlock their meaning.
Gaze downward
to find what stars
have left behind.
Remember to follow
these words
to the letter.
Christopher Stolle’s writing has appeared most recently in Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, Edify Fiction, Contour, The New Southern Fugitives, The Gambler, Gravel, The Light Ekphrastic, Sheepshead Review, and Plath Poetry Project. He works as an acquisitions and development editor for Penguin Random House, and he lives in Richmond, Indiana.