Mirrorform: The Living Dead — Blackbird Archive

← v16n2, Fall 2017

Asleep with the light left on

I dream in animation:

I’m a zombie porno station.

Grubworms binge on the lawn.

Someone left the dog on

and it died. It’s “on vacation.”

We’re all flying toward that nation,

asleep with the light left on.

humor mortality technology

Peter Kline

Peter Kline’s first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2013. His poetry has appeared in many journals including Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, and the 2015 Random House anthology, Measure for Measure. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow (2008–2010), he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House (2014), James Merrill House (2013), Marble House Project (2016), and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation (2013). Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. Photo by Lisa Beth Anderson