Biography Of Corey Zeller

About:

 Corey Zeller is the author of Man vs. Sky (YesYes Books). His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, The Colorado Review, Diagram, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, West Branch, The Literary Review, New York Tyrant, Chorus (MTV Books), among others. He currently serves as an associate editor at Mud Luscious Press and a social media wrangler for H_NGM_N BOOKS.

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The river is a fish and my tongue is white paper you draw your hand on and the sounds keys make on the waist of a janitor in an empty building on the night of your birth when the moon was a live bird pinned to a girl’s chest and the color of a beat-up door that hides a paint chipped life where we lick the throats of passing trains and wear bright pills over our faces like ghost masks and move the tiny ghosts that live in us like dominos.



FATHERS



Dozens of fathers
are up in the trees
pointing and laughing
at the fathers
not fatherly enough
on the sidewalk below

even though the fathers
in the trees are dressed
like women and are
making woman-father
sounds and shooting pink lasers
from their eyes as they grumble

sad father things.
While all the kids of the fathers
are in their houses
sucking their Gameboy screens
as 1994 dissolves

in their mouths
like Pop Rocks

as their mothers touch
all the colors
and take the colors away
with their hands,
rubbing the colors
onto their bodies

until all that’s left
are these blobs with mouths
cooing in the ecstasy
of what the color means
with all the fathers
being born inside them

like seeds in a pomegranate
or dreams in a jellyfish
as it begins raining fathers
into fathers outside;
a Tetris of fathers
filling the spaces

of where no father is.
Fathers upon fathers
trying not to miss.