Poem with Locked Box
“And to think these are our success stories: / the invention of violence / our people’s greatest innovation.”
Adam Gianforcaro is a writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. His poems, stories, and essays can be found in Third Coast, RHINO, Poet Lore, Hobart, Soft Punk, The Cincinnati Review miCRo series, and elsewhere. He was an Honorable Mention in The Maine Review’s 2021 Embody Awards and a winner of Button Poetry’s 2018 Short Form Contest.
“And to think these are our success stories: / the invention of violence / our people’s greatest innovation.”