copper ingots, the beloved. To lean into the updraft, the long oval. you’ll have to try, another says. If you’re afraid, it’s okay. Reinforce. Benjamin Blackhurst grew up in California but lives (with a pitiable zero cats) in Utah, where he is a first-year PhD student at the University of Utah. It’s about brinksmanship: one man leaning over the edge and another. your wings with wax. Mend them. Mend anything you like, really: old. knit caps, sweaters, stockings. All the usual things. Hearts too. Hopes. of the horizon. We all go mute that high up—some from the chill; An Essay on the Fall. telling him to outdo Icarus, to carry all manner of heaviness: hubcaps, others, awe. The breath departs. Clean, a winged thing, towering. by Benjamin Blackhurst. Anything not whole, waiting to be filled. Because on the whole that’s life: waiting. over the redwoods, the skyline, it soars. You’ll never outdo it; to be filled, for the right wind, for people to push you and lose their breath as you.