31 | Poetry by Harris Coverley, Pushcart Prize & Rhysling Award Nominee

Editor’s Note: Maybe I shouldn’t have published this one. Too funny!

(Mis)abduction

close encounter—
the twenty-ninth kind: my dick
trapped in flying saucer hatch

Harris Coverley

A former Rhysling nominee, Harris Coverley has had over two hundred poems published in journals around the world, including California Quarterly, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Silver Blade, The Crank, Corvus Review, Apocalypse Confidential, View From Atlantis, Tigershark, and many others. He lives in Manchester, England.

Editor’s Note: Recently, Harris and the other twelve members of the Poets Thirteen were nominated for the Pushcart Prize by this publishing house for their renku, “Quantum Entanglement,” which appeared in the debut issue of The Lotus Tree Literary Review.