Blue Runner
A short new poem from Richard Georges in Issue 35: Fall 2016 of The Puritan. For rules on how to enter our poetry contest, see our submissions page.
we must learn again
those arts we have forgotten:
how to throw our hands
up in the shape of a candelabra;
the art of paring
a fish from its translucent bones;
how to pull the thin
shimmering spears from our throats.
