Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Carnival

By Michael Minassian

Carnival

Feeding the Ferris Wheel
at nine o’clock

it came back empty
at nine fifteen

its cars grinning
like toothless jaws

Squeaking on hinges
red with rust.







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