Kafka, esquire


︎︎︎ Philip Traylen

︎ Apr 28, 2026

Halfway through the poem,
God died. The village elders
recommended continuing anyway,
then a guy at the back said:
“a collective prayer
for a girl who
looks like sunset.” I
said nothing, I wanted
to keep you for myself—














Philip Traylen is a writer from Wales.

Also by Philip: The Odyssey, a new translation