Tony Schanuel
The Highways that Divide Us Are Littered with Us
There is a me in me
that balks at poetry.
Hear me, then, darling,
dear: here
I am, you might
find me here: asleep
at the wheel, adrift
between here and us,
rotating to stasis
amidst rib cages (of deer,
dear) and tired,
retired tires, the glassy
fallout of strangers’ wrecks.
Here, then: see my being
lifted by stranger
and stronger hands
than my own. The task
of which, at which
these hands so often shake,
is this: to wring
from the small lapses
of our days the ineffable.
To lift
us above it all
and say to you and say
to us: see, then, here,
perhaps, is God.
Colin Lubner is a soon-to-be MFA candidate at the City College of New York. You can check in on him and his writing through Twitter: @no1canimagine0. He’d love it if you checked in.
Tony Schanuel is an award-winning photographer and visual artist who has fused a professional background in photography, digital technology, and painting and mark making to create fine art that transcends those mediums. His work has been featured in Digital Imaging Magazine, Computer Graphic Magazine, Wild Heart Journal, St. Louis Design Magazine, and is a featured artist in Cyber Palette and Extreme Graphics, two books showcasing digital artists and their work. He has exhibited at the Florence Biennale and his art is held in private and corporate collections including the Fine Arts Museum of Houston permanent photographic collection.