New World Recycling is part of a larger series of poems that examine / explore the decay and danger within a rural, often forgotten landscape; the harm within the intimate (here, of queer intimacy); and the haunting presence and aftershocks of substance abuse.

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Kieron Walquist is a queer, neurodivergent writer and hillbilly from Missouri. His work appears / is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, and others. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.