R L Powell

Exhibition without the Museum

iii. without warning, a pitch of desire

I wanted nothing

more
than

to repeople the world
with ourselves—

sober, on the street—

to endure, tall
as princes—to the quick

cracked
even statues; left

as fragments; household salvage
without a detailed room

to return—
blaze,
without applause—

if only
he would let me
bless him, openly

in the day

R L Powell is a poet, editor, & advocate for all things peculiar & kind. A neurodivergent, disabled, & queer creative—he's been involved in an improbable number of professions, has BA and MA degrees in literature and theory. Recently, they exited doctoral studies to pursue an MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is the founding editor-in-chief of APROSEXIA LIT, a poetry journal that features the work of divergent, challenged, and challenging minds. Recent incidents of his own poetry appear in Haven Spec, The Eunioa Review, The Rumen, Impossible Archetype, among others—with more forthcoming elsewhere. On Instagram, they're @r.l_powell—their personal website is rl-powell.com—and he would like to remind you that you’re doing a magnificent job of being yourself.