Love Poems (an announcement)

The love poem is a remarkable invention. Its broad usage and interpretation make it both wholesome and contrived. Shy City House is excited to announce it’s in the process of creating and collecting submissions for a book of love poems. We encourage unorthodox approaches. Please submit up to five love poems to editor@shycityhouse.com for consideration. Those who are published in the book will share its profits.

For now, here’s the first (maybe unfinished?) love poem of the future:

Love Poem 1/Untitled

You were a lost dog

And I was a groveling fool

Chasing true love through a heart-shaped labyrinth

Your distant submission

Veneer of perfect effortlessness

The space between hours expanding

My relative mental indignation

To keep consuming time, you must

Remain a nail in my graceful crux

Gliding through the same condition

Without the slightest appreciation, despite your self-

Appointed position atop the world of moral tradition

What a mouthful you made

Acceptance speech dreams

Brought to life in vain