John Bryan

SUBSTITUTE BEHIND THE MYTH

Cannot buy an eggplant
Without seeing the face
Of Christ
 
Or raisin bread
For eyes, yet as
A child
 
A carrot was a vegetable
For a man
And I knew
 
The women
And girls
This man had loved

John Bryan has been published in Mipoesias, Half Drunk Muse, Verse Libre Quarterly, Salt River Review, Blue Fifth Review, The Hiss Quarterly, FireWeed, Unlikely 2.0, BlackMail Press, and Stylus Poetry Journal.