Jackson Sabbagh
​​Monsoon 2016

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Clouds, Like a Gay Pride Parade

Pomaded poufs,
skimpy togas I can only imagine undone,

I know you slog by slowly
to show off your aureoles.

You make me an outsider.
But you, like I am now, were tired once

of mulling in puddles of gutter water.
Your groins, bulging like those of Greek daddies

who cruised courtyards for ephebes,
prove love survives

​only when someone’s on the sideline.

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Jackson Sabbagh is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Florida. They won the Academy of American Poets College Prize at Sarah Lawrence College. Their poems have appeared in journals such as Assaracus, Word Riot, and RUST + MOTH, the last of which nominated them for a Pushcart Prize.