This Same Flower
By Dustin Radke
By Dustin Radke
Dustin Radke, whose work has appeared in such places as Kelp Journal and Off-Kilter Magazine, is from St. Louis, Missouri and currently lives in Santa Barbara, California. He can be found on Instagram @dustin_radke.
The last distraction of a hobo life
To guide me back to berth, a rose by name
You are, my rise, the next adventure I from which
Would like to not return the same
Here is the fork of casting off to stars
Or holding fast to charted highs and lows
The last distraction of a hobo life
But is this Dante or Rob Herrick’s rose