2024 “(Not) In Love” Tanka Challenge Second Place Winner: “I Was Once” by Jonathan Carroll
Please help us celebrate the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 “(Not) In Love” Tanka Challenge, Jonathan Carroll. Check out their profound tanka, “I Was Once.”
We chose this tanka for its quick drop into the depths of complicated & intimate relationships.
I Was Once
An altar unmade
liminal space for desire
he sees himself in
other men so he puts his
other men so he puts his
phone on my back and watches.
Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Carroll is a Southern-born Black nonbinary poet living and working in Seattle, WA.
