Is anyone talking about what resistance looks like in art?
by JOEL CRAIG
Here’s to popping balloons
even in our many hours in a few days
of intimacy
one day
you’re walking around
in the moonlight
on the Moon
like it’s nothing
and here
you are suffocating
on Venus because
Venus you are
somehow
responsible for
some of us
go along
and that is the joke
who are we
in the economy
of style
floating away
on a scale of
are you hope
comes naturally
wrestled to the sidewalk
or radiating into
the phrase
we have every intention
to conquer
the cosmos
I am definitely
leaning outside
approved systems
into the blossoming
flowers
trying to
avoid the thorns
JOEL CRAIG is the author of the poetry collections Humanoid and The White House (both Green Lantern Press). He co-founded and hosted the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago from 2001-2015 and serves as an artistic associate for the Lit & Luz festival. Recent work can be found in Fonograf magazine, TYPO, and Windfall Room.