• Poetry

    Two Poems by Emma Hyche

    Precarity

    My friend said
    that adjunct teaching makes him wonder
    which character from Apocalypse Now

    he is that day-

    Dennis Hopper maybe, or
    that Playmate emerging from the helicopter
    and shimmying. The one
    with the cowboy hat and the fake
    guns under the swingblade. I’m

    a palm tree on the beach

    most days, keeping
    the sand anchored

    to the shore.