Connor Fisher
Winter 2025 | Poetry
Bureaucrats
The colors of wine revolted and ran. Peaches
bled. My mouth was an ink stain
poured out for crows. My little tongue
lapped at the tines of a fork and stroked
a dripping needle. My knees splayed against
leaves. I lost my grandson amid the clamor
of telephones. Bureaucrats were robber snails
combing the beaches for slips of silver. My
glass eye landed on a black beach towel. Children
were starving. They ordered a mouth. Bite, little
teeth! Chew the white lamb! One of you will be
sainted. One of you will become a shipwreck
of rocks, far beneath the pier.
Connor Fisher is the author of A Renaissance with Eyelids (Schism Press, 2024), The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and three poetry and hybrid chapbooks including The Unholy Moon (salò press, 2024). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His writing has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Random Sample Review, Tammy, Tiger Moth Review, and Clade Song. He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.