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how pleasing
to the ear
“clacks” of blocks
aligning
as fingers
deftly dance
on checkered
smooth plastic
disco stage
attempting
Rubik’s Cube
victory
turn and twist
against clock’s
hushed ticking
colorful
tiles line up
in neat stacks
chaos forced
to conform
to order
M. Benjamin Thorne is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Topical Poetry, The New Verse News, The Savannah Literary Journal, and The Main Street Rag. He lives and sometimes sleeps in Charlotte, NC.