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Look at God, up there flipping urns | Cydni Thompson

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Final call for September's free monthly poetry contest "Poem of the Month". The theme is KINK. Send us one poem responding to this (interpret freely!). Winners gets $40 + publication. Read previous winners​

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Cydni Thompson

Cydni Thompson is a black poet from Jamaica, Queens. She is entering her final year of her MFA at Queens College, and is the '25-'26 Poetry Coalition Fellow at The Poetry Society of America. Her work has been featured in or is forthcoming from New England Review, Poet Lore, poetry.onl, and elsewhere.

from All Over

Death jumps

from yellow to yellow like a child in a circle
of trampolines. Outside, Dad working
again, face turned to the funeral in the sky:

look at God, up there flipping urns.

Waitlisted for Reincarnation

On the anti-elegy, humor, and grief for sale

I don’t delude myself that I can make a newer or more profound poem about our manifold tragedies and injustices than other smarter and more insightful poets have already accomplished."

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