Matthew Schultz
Barbeque Politik
Lips, barbeque red and sweet as molasses;
St. Louis sauce that reminds you of home.
It breaks your heart because you can never go
back now you’ve tasted sunshine salvation:
exiled Midwesterner in honey-gold Carolina,
lemon landscape, yolk-like and Vitruvian.
Matthew Schultz (he/him) is the author of Encomium: Cento Paradelles (Beir Bua Press). Icaros, his collection of prose poems is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in May.