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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 by Prince Bush
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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.

 

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  • Published in Issue 30
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