The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Tomorrow, it will be today again, / whole lives tucked between / the words is & was.”
Matthew Tuckner is a writer from New York. He is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at NYU where he is Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review and teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program. He is the recipient of a University Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the winner of the 2022 Yellowwood Poetry Prize, selected by Paige Lewis. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Pleiades, West Branch, Nashville Review, The Missouri Review, Bennington Review, and Split Lip Magazine, among others.
“Tomorrow, it will be today again, / whole lives tucked between / the words is & was.”