Game | Rachel J. Bennett

  Rachel J. Bennett is the author of On Rand McNally's World, from dancing girl press. Her poems are included in the Brooklyn Poets Anthology, from Brooklyn Arts Press, and Pith: Year One, from Kin Press. Recent poems appear in Big Lucks, Bodega, LEVELER, Rattle, Salt Hill Journal, Sixth Finch, and Vinyl Poetry. She grew up on the Illinois-Iowa border and lives in New York City. Find more at www.racheljbennett.com .     For the Programmer   I didn’t become myself until you   it’s true the lens was cracked also how the war was never mentioned   we wanted everyone   to love us because we didn’t love anyone as much as we said   I wrote an opera called the horizon variations to win you and if I foundered it’s because you weren’t the sea   the force field wasn’t your careful breaks nor countless fruits (the ones I now call apples) but the thing I’ll never say again   which I wrote down as your name   on the screen with all the high scores