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Paul Koniecki
Paul Koniecki lives and writes in Dallas, Texas. He was once chosen for the John Ashbery Home School Residency. His poems feature in Richard Bailey’s movie “One of the Rough” distributed by AVIFF Cannes. Cathexis Northwest Press, Blue Mountain Review, Wild Roof Journal, Chiron Review, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Henniker Review, Gasconade Review, and Thimble Literary Magazine have published his work, as well as many other places. He received his MFA from VCFA in 2024.
After the conjoined men
we saw a woman with four legs. Well dressed, seated, comfortably appointed and knitting. And I wondered if the soul of her twin was free and happy as I wondered if the stars of this show and in the sky and my son and any of us are free and happy or non-ambulatory souls blind […]
Adam’s Song
Now that I am tall, too tall, and nearer to god and death we have come to the freak-show again. Where will I fit in at seven feet eight inches tall, three breaths left and no time for the rhetorical? In my eye there is a skyscraper, a sparrow, and a new cloud, my own […]
Fair Day, or to the river with my Little Fish
We came to the circus grounds by small train, not a toy in the forest, but the fog swaddled everything. Between galena tinctured arms of trees branching to smaller fingerlings and capillaries of damp brown hair on the steam engine swam. And Adam and I immersed in it on the front most wooden bench holding […]