Konstantin Rega

Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin N. Rega graduated from East Anglia's Creative Writing MA with the Ink, Sweat and Tears Scholarship. Twice a Dan Veach Young Poet's Prize finalist and 2019 Best of the Net nominee, he's been published by Poetry Salzburg Review, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Lighthouse Journal, The Claremont Review, amongst others, and is a contributor for Southern Review of Books and Virginia Living. (IG: @knr.designs / Twitter: @snarky_asider)

as the evening sun goes down

then comes that strain / in my left breast / like a hair tugged out a scalp // like a finger moving ...