Timothy Ashley Leo
Summer 2025 | Poetry
via (negativa)
how often, really, do we see
a red candle in a basilica of blue
cezanne
made a movement
then another
stroke
scraping
oils (oranges)
twisting (pigments)
knife (in time)
the fruit (gives way)
the orb (withers)
rots (shrinks back)
from itself
becomes
esters
acids
flies
Timothy Ashley Leo is the author of The Dog's Letter, a sequence forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. His writing appears in Annulet, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. timothyleo.com/work