Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in Cherry Tree, The Drift, The Cortland Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in English (Creative Writing) as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
DURING SHAME by Prince Bush
Friday, 16 August 2024
The distorted cat will follow under the door,
Above the rug, and float like a scent
You’ve never smelled
Though sure that others smell it too.
It’s sweet. It had eaten the grass,
Had a sore throat, and lied flat,
Like a thick towel on the bed
Where you are headed sick,
Not a stray, not owned by you,
Totally free in your house,
The town, and the world.
- Published in Issue 30
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