The Last Safe Piece

  • Armin Hamrah ’23, photo from Unsplash.com

A king elegy from our favorite chess poet!

The last safe piece

Rests at the board’s origin

Asking for the opponent’s zugzwang



Watching the vertices in awe

Fearing its extinction

Sinking in the quicksand of the board



It spins in circles

With tactful patience

Hoping for a stalemate’s liberation



An endless quarantine

The impossibility of escape

Drives him to insanity
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