POETRY

By Heikki Huotari

some animal con­cate­na­tions were more prob­a­ble than others      as intel­li­gent as any echo
mech­a­nism my accelerom­e­ter at odds with my thought process­es the problem of hard
solip­sism was not solved      I did not think to ask      I did not ask to be      from not
debauch­ery to not idol­a­try pro­gres­sive­ly fore­go­ing      pen pen pen penul­ti­mate who’s
on the diving ironing board      who’s count­ing down      I’m anti parei­do­lia when I survey my
savior’s face and anti deja vu      the king is in the poignant vignette jux­ta­pos­ing house
the king is jux­ta­pos­ing poignant vignettes yet I’ll have a closer look at the cre­den­tials of
the can­di­date I’ll dream of you so you won’t have to and to keep the con­ver­sa­tion going
when you say tomato or potato I’ll say au contraire

This story orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 18.

Photo by Ameer Basheer.