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AGNOIOLOGY

PETER BURZYNSKI

Speak, good poet, otherwise
the night will eat you alive.

Break the bonds of your own
importance. Import wisdom

for we have none here. I hear
myself sleep so unsoundly

and argue with unseen guests
in many languages. Most of them

I know. I break. I confess tabernacles
full of the rapturous dreaming ruptures

in between my seams. I’ve sewn
my pants back together. I’m ready

to keep wading through swamps
and streams. I am not conscious

of objections. I will not awake
for seven years. Tell me what will happen

when I become death’s dream kingdom.
I will be king again. Crown me.

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Peter Burzynski is a second-year PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a B.A. from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School University, and a M.A. in Polish Literature from Columbia University.
In between studies, he has worked as a Sous-Chef in New York City and Milwaukee. His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry Blog, Your
Impossible Voice, the Unrorean, BORT Quarterly, Hobo Pancakes, The Great Lakes Review, Kritya, Bar None Group, Zombie Logic Review, and Fuck
Poems Anthology. He has poems forthcoming from RHINO, Thrush Poetry Review, Prick of the Spindle, Souvenir Lit Journal, White Stag Journal, Yes
Poetry, and Forklift Ohio.