Richard Siken
Richard Siken is the author of Blue Jupiters (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and Crush (Yale University Press, 2006), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2004. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. Source
Detail of the Fire
A man with a bandage is in the middle of something.
Everyone understands this. Everyone wants a battlefield.
Red. And a little more red.
Accidents never happen when the room is empty.
Everyone understands this. Everyone needs a place.
People like to think war means something.
What can you learn from your opponent? More than you think.
Who will master this love? Love might be the wrong word.
Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.
We know who our enemies are. We know.
Published:
None
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
Themes:
Love & Relationships
Violence & War
Literary Devices:
Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hypophora
a figure of speech wherein a writer raises a question and then immediately answers it
Interrupted Clause
a word group (a statement, question, or exclamation) that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses