Acrobats

She brought this great heaviness
with her.

Like quarried rock.

And the Keystone critics
called our time together in the trenches
a “doggerel burlesque.”

Which sharpened our alliance
to the head of a pin.

Tore acrobats
from the leotard heavens.

That superglue way
we stuck together.

If that
is not an agreement,
the sun has lost the sky
for good.

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Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.  His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Red Fez, Evergreen Review, International Times, Himalaya Diary, Huffington Post, Blue Collar Review, GloMag, and The Oklahoma Review.  He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada in his big blacked out truck.

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