PHILIP VENZKE
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POETRY

Image by Steffen Lemmerzahl
The Shortcut
Retrace your steps
several times in the snow
until you find yourself
again at a dark wall
listening to the recital
of lost paths and forebodings
its words too soft to hear
of what might be a map
again
retrace your steps

Philip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His most recent poems have appeared in Harbinger Asylum, Survision Magazine, Door Is A Jar, Bramble, The Deronda Review, Portage Magazine, and Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. His chapbook Chant to Save the World received a 2nd Place Prize in Survision Magazine and Book’s 4th James Tate International Poetry Prize (to be published in Spring 2022).
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