Winter Solstic Sonnet
           for Bernadette Mayer
by Ryan Gallagher

regarding the recent death of
life or light or lady macbeth eating
udon noodles dipped in electric
red acrylic cadmium colors

and all other platforms or
flat squares or flip formal
middle fingers at a podium
and say fuck formalism I’d

rather be square—
                              I’d rather
be a square a yellow
square with a silver beer can

a silver beer can I flip back back
back back back and it’s gone

Other poems by Ryan Gallagher in ActionYes #2:
Scotch Coffee Creamsicle Sonnet
3rd person omniscient surrealist poem that I walk into as a Romantic
September Poem / Okay I’ll Have Some Pudding
Young Edgy Energetic Poem
I Saw Goody Proctor
Sonnet (in Brueghel)
Things I’d Put in a Fanny-Pack / Sonnet