Alex King

Alex King is a software engineer from the Washington, DC area who is passionate about theoretical mathematics, cognitive science, and linguistics. He is fascinated by all things language — puns, etymology, word games, and of course, poetry. He is previously unpublished.

“Crickets,” “The Man in the Coffee Shop,” and “Edgewise”

freed from for a moment my sonic mechanics and I started to hear a free fiddling buzz it was that wild clicking din of innumerable tiny tigers -eye bug-leg violins: crickets! cruising from the roofs of blades play vesper serenades for June boys, vim Julies, whose bodies’ limbs are pinwheeling vibrato by their sides in halls of tall wheat grasses…