Humility

Humility

Daniel Gene Barlekamp

there are people in this city
other than you
so show some teeth
hold the door
and wash the feet of the beggar
under the blistered sky

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Daniel G. Barlekamp
Writer & Immigration Paralegal

Daniel's poetry is forthcoming in The Seventh Quarry Poetry Magazine, and his fiction and nonfiction has appeared in various U.S.- and U.K.-based publications. His science fiction, which won a silver honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest, will be anthologized in Age of Artifice, forthcoming in August 2022 from Dragon Soul Press. Daniel is also the author of stories for children.

Photography by Aedrian