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BIO: LYNCHPIN


unable to find our way



to love we founded

a country, country



out of air – citizen ship

a music borne in cells



ready when you are

did you know



the third person, a fourth, until

we lunched on two suns



father, lunch of two sons

and a lynching, father











Adrian Lürssen is the author of HUMAN IS TO WANDER, winner of the 2022 Colorado Prize for Poetry selected by Gillian Conoley, and the chapbook Neowise (Trainwreck Press). Recent work has appeared in mercury firs, HERE journal, Digital Vestiges (Black Sun Lit), Second Stutter, and places elsewhere. Originally from South Africa, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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