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Claustrophobia #1
being pushed into
a subway car of
clothes and one
knife somewhere in
a pocket as doors shut
Claustrophobia #2
boys huddled in the back
of a dark cave waiting to
be heard by the world
over the rising water
of politics and personality
Claustrophobia #3
pinned under a pile of
friends who lost
the ball and can’t
find the fathers
that they always wanted
Eric Machan Howd's fifth collection of poems, "Universal Monsters," was recently published by The Orchard Street Press (OH). His poems have also appeared in River City, Nimrod, The Decadent Review, and Caesura. He is currently working on an erasure project on gender expectations using a novella by the author H.P. Lovecraft.
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