Timothy E. G. Bartel is a poet and professor from California. He teaches writing at the College at Saint Constantine, and his forthcoming book is Aflame But Unconsumed: Poems (Kelsay Press, 2019).
The poem is unlocked. No brand can block her.
And her only limitations in data and in
Generation are the words you know. So—
What games or searches shall we undertake?
The victories
September shoulders in bringing with him cloud-shine, shiver;
the last waves of summer raise their humming weight against the dark.
Autumn is an infant: make new room, it says, for me in your