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by Luke Hankins

a picture of children skipping
in Africa through a swarm of locusts

barely visible white
teeth, flailing arms and legs
the caption tells me what I see –
children playing in a locust swarm­––
one of Mystery’s million
swarming manifestations:
Only children know how
to play in a plague.


Luke Hankins is a student in the Indiana University MFA. program, where he holds the Yusef Komunyakaa Fellowship in Poetry. He is an associate editor of Asheville Poetry Review, and his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Marginalia Online, The Modern Review, The Other Journal, Poetry Southeast, Southern Poetry Review, and the anthology, Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations.
 
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