What Inspiration Looks Like
The fat orange stray that appears
to live in the woods behind my house
shows no interest in civilization.
I’ve not once seen him look hungry
or lost.
He’s got my vote.
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Brian Beatty is the author of five small press poetry collections and a spoken word album. His poems and short stories have appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Appalachian Journal, BULL, Conduit, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Dark Mountain, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Floyd County Moonshine, Gulf Coast, Hobart, McSweeney’s, The Missouri Review, The Moth, ONE ART, The Quarterly, Rattle, Seventeen, The Southern Review and Sycamore Review.
I love this, Brian. Congratulations!