9.7 / July 2014

Paperwings

Joshua Young

we drank champagne with skittles at the bottom like our wedding night. the rapture comes up in conversation again, but we’re done talking about the church & at this point it just turns into all the ways we’ve learned to hate our old christian friends. hate is a strong word—disappointed. new years eve, & we’re missing our single friends, we’ll play tetris till midnight, wait for the avian sunrise. where is this winter anyway?

Joshua Young is the author of THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE (Plays Inverse), and three other collections. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lettered Streets Press, and Associate Director of Poetry & Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago. He lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood with his family.

9.7 / July 2014