Maria lulls me to slumberland, where I amcharged with sailing a ship with seventeenthousand children aboard. My first jobafter getting a captain’s license. I declinedto tell my employer about my narcolepsy.Instead I decorate the helm’s spokeswith bells, so I rouse upon hearingtheir rings and arrive in time for the wedding.
Dreamship Helmsman
Alan Felsenthal
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Alan Felsenthal is the author of Hereafter (The Song Cave, 2024) and Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). His writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the the editor of Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt (The Song Cave, 2023) and the coeditor of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013). He currently teaches poetry at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
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