Maximilian Heinegg
Signs in the Bay
I have no illusions about these neighbors,
who have seen enough of me
to smash my windows, & salute
the armies as they pass.
But eighteen months in, I ease no better
into the fantasy where I burn
down their houses, sink their boats, smash
their windows, cinder their doors
to satisfy a rage once unfamiliar —
now a muscle memory at each sign
designed in red to do just this, does —
because my cause, my cause is just.
Maximilian Heinegg‘s poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Free State Review, Sweet Tree Review, Misfit Magazine, and The American Journal of Poetry. Additionally, he is a singer-songwriter and recording artist. He live sand teach English in the public schools of Medford, MA.
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