Matt McBride
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Alex Bruesewitz in Hell
You’re a Ken doll
inside a tube television.
There’s a folding table
and there’s a telegraph machine.
Each tap of the Morse Key
releases a fly
from the TV’s speaker;
each fly lives six seconds
before returning to ash.
Matt McBride's work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Collidescope, Conduit, The Cortland Review, Figure 1, Guernica, Impossible Task, The Laurel Review, The Missouri Review, The Rupture, Rust+Moth, and Zone 3 among others. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, City of Incandescent Light (Black Lawrence, 2018) and At the Mercy of the Flies (Half Mystic, 2026) as well as four chapbooks. His most recent, Prerecorded Weather, co-written with Noah Falck, won the 2022 James Tate Prize and is available at SurVision Books. He can be found online at www.mattmcbridepoetry.com.