To get ya as excited as we are for our poetry book coming out next month we thought in the next few weeks we would highlight some poems that were selected for Relevant Poetry! The first one we’d like to share is by ji dally, and is titled Midheaven. We hope you like it.

Midheaven

Not nostalgia.

Rather,

Stealing the mundane from you.

The days have informed my apathy

With stale rent flavors.

I’ve forgotten the sweet baker’s scent

Until here,

Where we bake in the sun.

This is new canon — levity for its own sake.

As the heat settles

The sweat rises to the skin’s surface but never breaks through

In this mid-afternoon with you.