Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems Style:Paperback and that cynicism is no

and that cynicism is no defense when the real scalpels come out

an airport in Detroit

others have called it a tragedy

To survive their intertwined small town lives

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems Style:Paperback and that cynicism is noBy K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloveds Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child assigned woman and a boy forced to call himself a girl love one anotherfrom afar, behind closed doors, in motels. The child survives an injurious mother and the beast shaped men she brings home; the boy becomes a