Michael Brockley's Hermit Crab of T-shirts
Michael Brockley wrote this in our "Summer Strange" online class for the "Hermit Crab" assignment—wherein your mind crawls into an established form and takes over—inspired by Lauren Haldeman's mirror poems. When I saw it, I HAWed hard, closed it, and opened it again because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I love how sadness and doubt creep into its formidably masculine, competitive structure. My fave: "Signs you grew up lonely." It found the perfect home in Misfit Docs at Queen Mob's Teahouse.