Vintage DB 94: Andrew Nurkin’s “Search Algorithm,” DB 13
Search no further. Andrew Nurkin’s “Search Algorithm” is the poetic perfection you’ve been looking for. This beautiful piece of writing invites you to peer deeper within it, to unpack its interconnected stories and images and to find something you didn’t realize had been right there in DB 13, Winter 2010–2011, this whole time, just awaiting your discovery. Catch a glimpse here, and then be sure to enjoy the rest via the link below.
“…His hands searched the small of my back
for a pardon I refused, miniature ungivable grace. His thumbs
turned the crux of my voice into a secret
I relished with my tongue
like a lozenge, swallowed — sweet, quick — for safe keeping.
In the concrete darkness a voice instructs:
Tell it.
Tell the secret.
But I have lost it…”
Andrew Nurkin’s poems have appeared recently in the Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He lives, writes, and works in New Jersey.
