Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #15

Unenlightened there's a man who speaks in sestinas whose footsteps fall into syncopated patterns who cries watercolor landscapes across his cheeks who was born as a block of marble and chiseled the statue of himself out of it from the inside who is a composition composed to be perfect at composing a man who bathes in prose and leaves it cleaner who is siblings with the syllables he arranges who never questions the lessons of intuition but I am not that man John Maurer John Maurer is a 26-year-old writer from Pittsburgh who writes fiction, poetry, and everything in between. He has been published in Claudius Speaks, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Thought Catalog, and over fifty others.