Abraham Porschet

After Bronk

It’s true, I have been wrong
about what I mean when I say hills.

Now I think they are tools we use
to organize light.

Similarly, houses are conventions
allowing us to think about futures

as places we travel to, instead of
collective projections into new pasts.

From a distance, nothing appears
to have gravity                       

but I remember driving through corn
for hours with a woman I loved.

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Abraham Porschet is a writer and statistician from Geneva, New York. He is pursuing a PhD in statistics at the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly and Small Craft Warnings.