Jonathan Clark

Jonathan Clark is an emerging poet from the history rich borough of Bethlehem, PA. His muses for writing take shape in the form of fusing fragmented personal histories attempting to negotiate closure. He is currently working on compiling a chapbook, in which many poems interrogate how we sculpt a personal identity through the broken human relationships we rely on for belonging and purpose. This is his first publication.

“Brotherly Love”, “Loving Your Absence” and “Nostalgia”

Brotherly Love We start out soft as Egyptian sheets – boys,
then we manufacture into men. Notice how the word
men, sounds harder, stiffened by our insides churning
to stone as we grow.