Double Dactyl 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Higgledy piggledy,
Will, King of Simile,
says, You know, actually,
scratch every line;
summer is really quite
impulchritudinous
when one compares it to
this poem of mine.
Josh Luckenbach‘s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. He currently serves as Managing Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.