National Poetry Month #16

Spencer Holst

Who’s ready for some flash fiction, the cousin of the prose poem? Let’s kick off the second half of the month with “Brilliant Silence” by Spencer Holst. Check out the sound of this sentence: “There a jaguar jumped a juggler, and afterwards, mortally mauled the animal trainer; and the shocked showpeople disbanded in dismay and horror.” Someone’s feeling their alliteration!