Burning Beds
a new poem by Sarp Sozdinler
Burning beds
Before sleep,
name three things
you would save
from a fire
and one thing
you would let burn
out of respect
for the flames.
Sarp Sozdinler has been published in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, HAD, Hobart, Maudlin House, X-R-A-Y, and Pithead Chapel, among other journals. He edits the literary journal The Bulb Region
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