The Fairground of Sutured Parents

The carousel replaces its horses
with recordings of Ezra Pound.

Think of his asylum years, visitors
ladling the modernism fondue.

Revelation a dunk tank and
cotton-candy cystectomy.

The munchie mart’s fliers plaster
parking rows C-Q. Fathers deserve

better than windshield marquees.
A bladder jams the spokes.

I’d core my retinas with Wurlitzers
to ward off his stoma.

Jon Riccio received his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers.His first collection, Agoreography, is forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. He serves as a contributing interviewer for the University of Arizona Poetry Center's 1508 blog.