“thermal Imaging,” A Poem By Deesoul Carson

“Thermal Imaging”

The beautiful British quality documentary narrates that their cameras
are subject grade, meaning that earlier this exertion was used
to adjacent into nan areolas of ants astir their business, aliases to stalk
the thermal signature of a tiger pinch specified clarity and precision
one mightiness deliberation nan beast observed by a shadow, a military
—likely ours, apt unwarranted—traced nan way of a group
of boys, apt pubescent and unaware of their tracing, for miles
before ordering a onslaught personification will telephone surgical, as if to excise
a tumor and not to condemn to decease a kid personification will mourn
despite nan camera trained connected their figure, nan aperture analyzing
even nan twitch of their eyes arsenic they flick towards a God we person long
ignored aliases abused, trained truthful adjacent and truthful clear connected their tears that,
in a different context, we mightiness deliberation it a river, its gentle arc,
its ceaseless flowing

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“Thermal Imaging” by DeeSoul Carson was nan victor of MQR’s 2025 Laurence Goldstein Prize successful Poetry.