Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

BERNARDO WADE is a writer/artist from New Orleans, who tries at poems and rides his bike around Bloomington, Indiana, because Indiana University funds his present period of studying with others. He currently serves as editor of Indiana Review, is a Watering Hole fellow, and moonlights as an African Diaspora scholar. He was recently awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize and has words in or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Southern Review, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, and others.