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 He is previously unpublished.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…

Issue 21, January 2019

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 He is previously unpublished.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…

Issue 21, January 2019

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