from “Alchemy”

Here, I am the apparition        of flight—

            an unwritten    sketch—

it isn’t noteworthy.   

Seriously.

Here, I love the flux of my caustic

heart    dissolved        

into Morse code—

(A check against my mouth.

Availed of no one        I am slipped between

placebos,

compunctions + thefts.

I seek a fluency           in expectations. 

Adam Stutz's work has appeared in The Equalizer: Second Series, White Stag, The Cultural Society, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Prelude, Be About It, Deluge, Dum Dum Zine, The Pinch, Where is the River, Dream Pop, Cover, and Ghost Proposal. He is the author of the chapbook Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017), The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018), and he currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.