Rob Colgate
Finn drowned me he wanted to
there’s nowhere to read this
and my rubber filled with lungs
pushed the stretch of my back
thin water no I’m sorry
white water yes it was
less costly to sink the water
forced down into the bleachings
into the drowning of me by Finn
and yes I have done something psychotic
hundreds of wars have knocked
on apartment doors and those were mine
at least until I took myself into an ocean
and besides Finn knew that was a lie
when drowning and distance
and me wanted.
Rob Colgate is a poet from Evanston, Illinois. He holds a degree in psychology from Yale University and is currently pursuing his MFA with the New Writers Project at UT Austin. He is the author of the chapbook So Dark the Gap (Tammy, 2020) and can be found online at robcolgate.com.
