Ben Purkert is a poet with degrees from Harvard and New York University, where he served as a New York Times Fellow. Born in New Jersey, he lives in New York City.

I Shut My Eyes & Doors in Me Fly Open

An iPoem

by Ben Purkert

To begin, I’d like to meet my bones.
I’d strew them on a Minnie Mouse
beach blanket at a yard sale—

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