“Announce me, let them know I am coming. Carry me into the arena on a King Carrier. I come from a lineage of linebackers. My knuckles are a mountain range. Your booing only makes me more powerful.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Barber Shop” by Abigail Goodhart from Vol. 33:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Abigail Goodhart received their MFA at Western Michigan University. They have published poems in Atlanta Review, Passages North, and Sugar House Review. Their poetry collection Neither Kind of Body was a finalist in the Bluelight Books Prize in 2021. They live in Ann Arbor.