Gallop & Grassland

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︎︎︎ Cole Beaune

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︎ May 17, 2024

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suffering

    spiritual


        widget —    then amass

stay
         draft.          paranoia
states
                   broke            Too fast
Thumbs don’t work
drive
                      i ain’t answerin
my call
                   whittle
tradition
                           

no              horseshoes
mending

“worth”

and spotlight?
                     ‘you goddamn hick
                            swept
clap in the bull pit
separate ways open the world
burying excess
                   gallop tar we can’t see
         how content
         valley
         fire    ‘i have to say

          remember to

Cole Beaune is a Canadian-American poet and filmmaker who grew up in Mississippi and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have been published in Opt West, Dream Pop Journal, OF ZOOS, and The Quarterless Review. He is the poetry editor of Warm Milk Publishing.