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Elephants on Roses

Nicholas Goodly 
I took a saucer of tomato
slices, glittered in sea salt
into bed, ate them pristine
from my knees. His erection
a tusk as he snored. This
is what pain sounds like,
we are dragging a bronze bell.

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Nicholas Goodly is a recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A Cave Canem Fellow, Nicholas received a Teaching Fellowship from Columbia University and was a finalist in the 2017 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest and a finalist in the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize. Nicholas is the writing editor of WUSSY Magazine and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

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