The Glacier
Issue Two
Winter 2023

Getting Lit in the Infinite

She’s drinking coffee-flavored beer,
which is like putting shades 
on a hipster’s cool cadaver.
Who came up with that, 
reconnoitering the trendline
for specificity? America
has fractured into micro-fetishes,
one-night stands with whatever
one can stand at night. Say,
in California, you might vape
a breath of bubblegum-tinged THC,
while in Florida, even the edible
underwear tastes like sulfur. 
Endless permutations of possible
parallel universes, a String Theory
for getting lit in the infinite. 
Not judging. I like my Venti 
Valencia latte same as 
the next nobody, a memory 
of bliss no longer available in stores.

ACE BOGGESS is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.

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