Nicole Yurcaba’s most recent poem to appear here was Interstellar Overdrive (January 2012).
Broken Goes the Circle
By Nicole Yurcaba
spent ammo brass littering the wooden night stand,
spilled from the overturned
green plastic hundred-round
container, coming to rest
against empty glass Ancient
Age bottles,
devoid of their burning, senses-
altering amber,
weighting down a crisp new fifty,
a corner-bent twenty, a wrinkled five
and five grimy ones …


Really good.