Security Force
training
a
roach
to
train
a
bee
to
train
a
seal
to
ply
the
sea
keeps
the
cobra
with
the hawk
, who spent his
life in uni-
form
, when
the
roach
understands the need fora
homeland. We have
come to accept that
By Ezekiel Black
Ezekiel Black is the author of the poetry collection Letters from the Junta (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). His poetry and reviews have appeared in Verse, Sonora Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Drunken Boat, CutBank, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, BOAAT, inter|rupture, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing, and is a Senior Lecturer of English at The University of North Georgia. He edits the audio journal for experimental poetry Pismire (www.pismirepoetry.org).
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