the conservationist
I’ve shed layers of worldy
curtains until I barely was-
I’ve crawled from post to
post for mouthfuls of any-
thing to grasp the price
of my conservation.
Peter Schwartz’s work has been featured on such sites as Arsenic Lobster, Diagram, Opium Magazine; and in such journals as The Silt Reader and the Asheville Poetry Review. His third chapbook ‘ghost diet’ will be published by Altered Crow Press in late 2009. See the extent of his shenanigans at: www.sitrahahra.com.