J Campbell, “a very nice young man from Nashville, Tennessee,” has won the first-ever Surgery of Modern Warfare* Poetry Contest. An excerpt from my favorite poem of three:
The Neighbor’s Corvette
Already she has streaked white enamel
spray paint over the arterial redof his hood, tracking the ground effects
to their conclusion on the rear fenderwhere she draws a snowflake, the words
“GO TO HELL” and three exclamations….
* Surgery is edited by Amy Fusselman.