1
drove 
four hours from myself before 
stopping for coffee 

2
a world of fishing boats 
docked 
upside down 

3
I don’t look 
at myself in the mirror for fear 
of seeing 

4
Morro Rock’s volcanic plug compressed 
feces quartz glass inside 
my brain 

5
smoke rings 
along a waterfront begin to rise 
across a bridge of tears 

Publisher’s Note:

To learn more about the genesis and rules of this new poetic form, see:
Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor.

Jonathan Yungkans

is a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer with an MFA from California State University, Long Beach. His work has appeared in San Pedro Poetry Review, Synkroniciti, West Texas Literary Review, and other publications. His second poetry chapbook, Beneath a Glazed Shimmer, won the 2019 Clockwise Chapbook Prize and is slated for release by Tebor Bach Publishing in 2020.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Lawful and Proper, poem by Jonathan Yungkans in Rise Up Review (Fall 2020)

⚡ Cadralor in the Key of F-Sharp as It Cuts into My Spine in the inaugural issue of Gleam (Fall 2020)

⚡ I’d Love to Cook Like Hannibal Lecter [video], read by the poet at an event sponsored by Moon Tide Press (10 October 2019) celebrating the anthology Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror

⚡ Saving the Patient, poem in The Voices Project (18 January 2018)