The King loves when you’re in a cage.

Candy canes melting in the microwave.

He’s in the middle of the sky with the aggression of a nosebleed,

driving licorice cough syrup into our eyes.

Tyler Heath

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Tyler Heath lives in Dallas. His work has appeared in On the Rusk, Thin Air, Birds Piled Loosely, among other journals. 

Artwork:  Salvador Dali, “The Endless Enigma,”  1938.  public domain.

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