Mike Puican
The Familiar
Watch it wither
under
worms
and seeped-in rain
where story is a myth,
as is
property
and sequence.
O Liberator,
in this
now with
its own color
and sufficiency.
Even
your absence
shows us
the world. Beware,
little speck,
the familiar
is enormous.
Watch it wither
under
worms
and seeped-in rain
where story is a myth,
as is
property
and sequence.
O Liberator,
in this
now with
its own color
and sufficiency.
Even
your absence
shows us
the world. Beware,
little speck,
the familiar
is enormous.
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Mike Puican’s debut book of poetry, Central Air (Northwestern Press) was released in 2020. He’s had poems and reviews in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, and New England Review among many others. He won the 2004 Tia Chucha Press Chapbook Contest for 30 Seconds. He was a member of the Chicago Slam Team and is president emeritus of the Guild Literary Complex. He teaches poetry to incarcerated individuals at the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
Mike Puican’s debut book of poetry, Central Air (Northwestern Press) was released in 2020. He’s had poems and reviews in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, and New England Review among many others. He won the 2004 Tia Chucha Press Chapbook Contest for 30 Seconds. He was a member of the Chicago Slam Team and is president emeritus of the Guild Literary Complex. He teaches poetry to incarcerated individuals at the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.