Zachary Schomburg was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1977. He is the author of two books of poems: The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009). He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. His translations of Andrei Sen-Senkov and Irina Shostakovskaya are in Circumference, Mantis, Harp & Altar, and Jacket. He teaches at Portland State University and Portland Community College. from 1977–2050 Zachary Schomburg All the space around me is taken up with canaries. There is no way to know if it is day or night. When I move my arms and when I walk forward or backward or sideways I knock many canaries to the frozen ground and then step on them and crush their hollow bones. It feels like I am stepping on a bag of marbles. I don’t mean to step on them. I don’t mean to kill them but I don’t know how else to get anywhere. When I step on a canary a small dark part of it grows upward into my leg. It is a loud feeling of hollowness that attaches itself to my thigh bones. It gets louder and heavier as I step on more canaries. My legs become too heavy with hollowness so I stop walking. It sounds like a million accordions locked in a cave.