The City of Unknown Poets

Rolli is the author of the Gothic novel-in-poems Mavor's Bones. His website is rollistuff.com. "The City of Unknown Poets" is in Short Circuit #07, Short Édition's quarterly review.

If you call on
me
one evening

in the city
of un-
known poets

we'll talk
not a word
of the turning
world

no

but win-
dows throw
open
and listen

to the unsung in
unison
beautifully

singing

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