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WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED
Pantoum for an Interrogatory

by Brian Bruso

Apartment buildings seen from below

Everything keeps falling apart. She insists we should stay together, though I cannot climb the stairs to her third-floor walk-up apartment while carrying the milk and eggs. We should stay together while shopping for groceries, even though mediation says otherwise. And though I cannot climb the stairs to her third-floor apartment, she insists on delivery of milk and eggs. The mediators never accounted for us sharing the milk and eggs and groceries and stairs and the agonizing descent of everything falling apart.

Brian Bruso found poetry early in life, before culinary arts consumed him the next 30 years, whilst that voice continually whispered in his head – “be free, write again”. Recently published in Burningwords, Rathalla, trampset and Hibiscus lit mags. Bluesky: @brianbruso.blsky | Instagram: eatsstoriesethics | Substack: BW Bruso

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