hero's last-second super-strength
A fresh new poem by Dylan Krieger and Vincent Celluci
hero’s last-second super-strength
Vincent A. Cellucci & Dylan Krieger
no herniated heroes allowed
one ton or ten
a limb caught inside boulder crag
victim of her own beauty helpless perhaps our love interest
kempt in havoc
between several smashed vehicles
or a downed building
ENTER a well-groomed hero nonchalantly battling a dark bad guy
the choreography to perform a la hercules
what the hero does
goes
slug for slug pinky-finger-forklift that shit
erase what you know
of the everyman or the laws of limits
secure your borders fortify the fortress
and flex like hell
raining down upon
the power flop’s penchant
for lifting tin cars off hotties
onto fire-fallowed fields of extras
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Vincent A. Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011) and edited Fuck Poems: an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana Banerjee is available from Finishing Line Press. _A Ship on the Line, a battleship-collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman released by Unlikely Books in 2014, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.
Dylan Krieger is a magazine editor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she recently earned her MFA in poetry and co-directed the annual Delta Mouth Literary Festival two years in a row. Her cats and warm jackets, however, still reside in the Catholic stronghold of South Bend, Indiana, where she was born, baptized thrice, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. Her first full-length collection of poems, Giving Godhead, won LSU’s Robert Penn Warren Award for best poetry thesis of 2015. Her follow-up project is a collaboration with her partner, Vincent Cellucci -- a book of poems that examines and satirizes overused action movie tropes.