Good Love is on the Way

Everything has a limit. Even the universe
has heat death. This does not help with the blinding
light. And there is so much
                                                to drink:

 Just look at everything that can be found inside any one piece of art.

I do not have a mind-palace.
Instead, I store
what it is to be a movement.  

All my life is collecting in this way—the shape
water takes blown out the mouth
of a nude model.

            Have you ever seen dew collect on a rose?

I do not get paid enough for this. And I’ve never
seen a Sequoia tree.

            You must be there early enough, before the water
            has given way to sunfire. Before
            that change.  

Every time I see a stack of crushed cars it feels like a metaphor.

I’ll let you make of that what you will.

austin Veldman

Austin Veldman is a poet, editor, and collage artist from South Bend, Indiana. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Plainsongs, Free State Review, Glassworks, Epiphany Magazine, Ocean State Review, and more. His collage art can be found in The Penn Review and Watershed Review. Veldman is the founding editor of Twyckenham Notes, which has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, named a finalist for a Firecracker Award in the Best Debut Magazine category, and is home to the Joe Bolton Poetry Award. He holds an MA in English from Indiana University South Bend and works in management at an automotive recycling facility. He lives in Northern Indiana with his wife and three children.