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.
-- 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.