tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214057142024-03-14T04:29:08.511-05:00SEVEN CORNERS<<< 7C | 7C | 7C | 7C | 7C | 7C | 7C >>>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-85843035125707134462016-06-24T17:43:00.000-05:002016-06-24T17:43:11.291-05:00Seeking Associate Editor for Poetry 7C is currently on hiatus and is seeking an associate editor for poetry based in Chicago. If interested, contact info at coimpress dot com for more information.Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-8363384217855879192015-07-14T12:04:00.000-05:002015-07-16T16:12:51.532-05:00Featured Poet: Katy Cousino<br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><font size="8"<b>THE EVERYDAY</b></font></span></span></div>
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GIRDLEMOMMA & GIRDLEBABY<br />
<em>waddle thru Beaver Valley Mall w/Hot Topic bags &<br />
Yankee Candle Pumple smells.<br />
The female girdlebods walk in2</em> Lane Bryant.<br />
<em>“What Real Women Wear” is smeared on every hexagonal wall.</em><br />
GIRDLEMOMMA & GIRDLEBABY <em>arrive to their fav h8 spot.</em><br />
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GIRDLEMOMMA: Last stop the girdlegirl store. We will sob<br />
& cut ourselves in pencil skirts.<br />
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<em>The GirdleClerks activ8 behind the counter:<br />
double-chins shake until they smile invitingly.</em>
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GIRDLEBABY: I cry lard pellets—suck on crumbs for comfort.<br />
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GIRDLEBABY <em>shoves her encased sausage<br />
thigh into shorts she’ll never wear, causing Thickpussy<br />
Imprint Protrusion. She stares at herself for a long time<br />
as lardstreams flood her clothing; she is chunkier<br />
now than before.</em><br />
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<em>Outside of the dressing room </em>GIRDLEMOMMA <em>grunts.<br />
She tightens her epidermis w/a spandex binder & moans<br />
sweetly into her own ear.</em><br />
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GIRDLEMOMMA: Constriction sweeter than sugar-blood.<br />
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<em>Thin humanoids loiter at the storefront, look in with big eye<br />
small hips, point at </em> GIRDLEBABY,<em> asking if she’s real.</em><br />
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Humanoid #1: what is fat but has skin<br />
Humanoid #2: yellow bulbous goo<br />
Humanoid #1: I’m, like, not even real; twas written in wallblood<br />
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<em>Suddenly </em>GIRDLEBABY’s <em> titcatcher is too tight;<br />
the silkworm straitjacket squeezes her <3 so hard.<br />
3 GirdleClerks swarm her, large scissor hands<br />
snipping at </em>GIRDLEBABY <em>bodice. The silver slips.<br />
Jabjow goes the <3.</em><br />
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GIRDLEMOMMA <em>, noticing the screams of her baby-girdle,<br />
leaks instinctual teetjuice from her succulence.<br /></em>
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GIRDLEBABY <em>is under the spyderlace canopy, staring upward<br />
w/grumble-guts. She sprawls across her bedding & knocks<br />
4 of her lard poles together; they expand & bounce like Newton’s<br />
ball-click cradle. Last night she dreamt of a vamp @ her window,<br />
pledging male fang belly-suck. Her eyes roll back in2 the skull.<br />
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A happy crevice burrows across her cheeks; teeth are<br />
barely visible: ground to gums.</em><br />
GIRDLEBABY <em>reaches into a craft bag<br />
of writhing phalanges. She glues them to an old back-scratcher.</em><br />
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GIRDLEBABY: I will now prepare the entrance.
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<font size="5"<b>BABOOMBANG</b></font>
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<em>There is a thump from the closet. Undeterred, however,<br />
as her girdle begins to boil over,</em><br />
GIRDLEBABY <em>envisions the vamp.<br />
She bids him nearer w/a pout.</em><br />
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GIRDLEBABY, <em>giggling</em>: Oh, my blood is all stopped up!<br />
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<em>Slowly,</em> GIRDLEBABY <em>drags the fingerstick<br />
across her risen teets. Its long yellow nails pinch<br />
& scrape her jello mounds. She watches in awe @<br />
digital magik. Her blushed nubs tremble.<br />
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Costumed humanoids whisper inside the closet.<br />
1 wears dark glasses & a distressed sk8r gurl dress<br />
salvaged from Urban Outfitters. The other<br />
is in a childhood leotard, also from Urban Outfitters.<br />
Both wear bald caps 2 sizes 2 big.<br />
The flesh flaps hinder their eardrums.</em><br />
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Humanoid #1: what say you, lard cooch?<br />
Humanoid #2: how it gargles!<br />
Humanoid #1: my voyeurism is innocent, 4 the sake of research<br />
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<em>The humanoids inch open the closet door; a sliver<br />
of morning sun sneaks in2 their spy spot.<br />
1 scribbles madly on stretched mole hide.<br />
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Fevering,</em> GIRDLEBABY <em>shoves the phalange stick down her girdle.<br />
The widespread fabric compresses slowly as baby-girdle inhales;<br />
bubbling moans liquify in her throats.<br />
Inside the lard-constraint detachable fingers dig.<br />
They swell w/forgotten liquid.<br /></em>
GIRDLEBABY <em>spurts from every orifice<br />
stiffening blood cum. The eyes seal shut.</em><br />
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Humanoid #1: who sponsored this?<br />
Humanoid #2: I am the brittle cage of flesh<br />
Humanoid #1: those phalanges have no self respect!
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span><font size="7"<b>SIGH OF THE HUMANOID</b></font></span></span></div>
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<em>The humanoids enter the dilapidated hospital in a panic as per usual;<br />
goldenrod graffiti covers every sickening wing. Wet blobs creep<br />
slowly to the carpeted floor. The shouty humanoids dash 4 sanctuary,<br />
feet sticking to girdle-bod goo. The blobs regenerate w/every plop.<br />
Above, Venus of Willendorf drips brown.<br />
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Humanoid #1 & Humanoid #2 slam mutually into a room.<br />
The ruckus erupts the tile floor in dust;<br />
yellow clumps rerupture in all corners of the room.<br />
Rust cracks on the equipment surrounding.<br/ >
They waste no time.<br />
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First quasi-scientist//halfhuman presses the suction wand<br />
in2 her naked abdomen; old slivers fester in pale skin.<br />
She hums loudly w/the machine. The cannula wheezes,<br />
sux on nothing.<br/ >
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Humanoid #2 is pumped w/vasoconstriction; the leftover serum<br />
expired by prior yrs. Swaying in the glass wall reflection,<br />
she wears an old gas mask coated in different spit.<br />
Her gown is damp & she cannot see her eyes.</em><br />
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Humanoid #1: All work & no play make the humanoid a dull girl.<br />
Humanoid #2: I’m all juiced up, sis; I can taste my skinny!<br />
Humanoid #1: We dance w/the devil in the pale moonlight.<br />
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<em>The humanoids’ thin rib cages ache apart slowly,<br />
bend 2 riveted flesh. They gasp 4 orgasm.<br />
Vessels swim clear thru their skin.</em>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><font size="6"<b>GIRDLEBABY WRITES A POEM<br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><font size="4"<b>xX mY cOnFiNeD sUsTeNaNcE xX</b></font></span></span></div>
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Before I was girdled, I didn’t know my #’s,<br />
but focusing now,<br />
I feel maybe 5 vaginal deposits within me.<br />
Momma tells me I could have<br />
girdle-babes of my own some day,<br />
40 in each spydersac.<br />
She tells me that my thick liquid distinguishes<br />
fart from fertility<br />
& I am full of both.<br />
My fleshular masses are<br />
stopped ^ w/ moo moo mucus<br />
cervical goo; there is no room for<br />
food or another 8-legged monster<br />
inside <em>these</em> fat sacs.<br />
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I don’t need no scrubs nor the rubbing procreation.<br />
I need for meatus tube-feed:<br />
different juice, the kind that creates<br />
substantial volume in humanchunks.<br />
Momma doesn’t know I swallow whole.<br /></div>
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<b>Katy Cousino</b> is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. She facilitates writing workshops weekly with the young women at the Juvenile Justice Center of South Bend. She believes that poetry is a powerful tool for social justice.
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© Copyright 2015 Katy CousinoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649155112836203316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-63286860222449396242015-06-06T16:07:00.002-05:002015-06-09T18:25:02.906-05:00Featured Poet: Miguel Ángel Bustos | Featured Translator: Lucina Schell<br>
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<b>OPEN SHADOW</b><br />
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Today I have sought<br />
the birds in my chest.<br />
Heavy trill,<br />
hard fist<br />
suspended from soul’s center.<br />
Today I have defended myself<br />
from the street and the tree,<br />
from their wall of feathers and tongues.<br />
Today I fear the crazed song<br />
that rises from inside me.<br />
Today I fear silence.<br />
I want the flight of my birds<br />
how I want you!<br />
Until wing by wing,<br />
shadow opened,<br />
we kiss freely.<br />
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—from <em>Heart of Outer Skin</em>, 1959<br />
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<b>LOOKING AT EACH OTHER WE COULD FORGET THE NUMBER</b><br />
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Maybe revolving over the city<br />
the machines rebel.<br />
The filing cabinets like flowers<br />
open<br />
quickly fanning out,<br />
and corral man.<br />
It may be that the wall of my house<br />
suspends a bit its weight<br />
and watches my sleeping body.<br />
Hounded walking with the fugitives.<br />
By the field and by the river,<br />
at the hour that the sun takes the day laughing.<br />
We could forget the number brothers.<br />
Looking at each other.<br />
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—from <em>Heart of Outer Skin</em>, 1959<br />
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<b>MY TONGUE</b><br />
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My tongue sinks<br />
deep tremors in your body.<br />
My tongue lives<br />
skips of your idiom<br />
in your throat.<br />
My tongue flies<br />
and cuts<br />
beat of water<br />
your belly.<br />
My tongue ties<br />
far away in your blood.<br />
My tongue looks<br />
and sees only one tongue.<br />
And today winds of stone blow<br />
and there are millions of mouths that seek<br />
tongues to make hearts stand on end.<br />
Tongues that inhabit the chest.<br />
Tongues in vigil erect,<br />
on the eyes on the brow.<br />
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—from <em>Heart of Outer Skin</em>, 1959<br />
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<b>PILGRIMAGE TOWARD THE SUN</b><br />
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Night you joined fire in water on land transformed by the sky.<br />
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Where did your flame appear?<br />
Cell and panel of glass captivate me.<br />
Make in me a forest of total innocence where fury and love<br />
graze, beneath the still clarity of silence.<br />
Who opened the air and separated my tranquil beatitude?<br />
A god in the sea inspires his storm.<br />
A god on land flaps the windows and his angel goes wandering.<br />
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—published in <em>La Nación</em> on March 7, 1971
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<b>ECCE HOMO</b><br />
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If it is already time to raise his Dominion,<br>
make it<br>
your width, your length, your absolute depth.<br>
Break my heaven, fled sea, home of<br>
fiends.<br>
Ease my sun in motion to the air of your<br>
arrogance in the emptiness of your calm.<br>
Tree of gods. Tempest of birds.<br>
Tremor in temples of fear. An absent god<br>
in the origin of god that<br>
I pursue.<br>
Same as children similar to the savages<br>
of death find your justice<br>
in zeal see the prayer of your first<br>
angel your angel fallen in the<br>
terror of dream.<br>
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—published in <em>La Nación</em> on January 16, 1972
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<b>MIGUEL ÁNGEL BUSTOS</b> was a major poet of the Argentine Generation of 1960. His <i>Visión de los hijos del mal</i>, with a prologue by Leopoldo Marechal, won the Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Poetry in 1968. Bustos became an early victim of the military dictatorship, which ushered in decades of censorship of his poetry. His collected poetry was republished in 2008, the first time it had appeared in print in more than thirty years. Bustos’s remains were identified in 2014 by forensic anthropologists.
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<b>LUCINA SCHELL</b> is founding editor of <a href="http://readingintranslation.com/">readingintranslation.com</a>, dedicated to publishing reviews of literature in translation written by translators. Her translations of Bustos appear in <i>Ezra Translation Journal</i>, the <i>Bitter Oleander</i>, and <i>Drunken Boat</i> and her literary reviews have been published in <i>Ezra</i> and <i>Zoland Poetry</i>.Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-21743353736108996762014-10-02T15:00:00.000-05:002014-10-02T16:20:45.880-05:00Featured Poet: Jamison Lee<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">a hate-stack, bombar dem</span></div>
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gun-shaped hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">home of damaged
dream-appliances</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">microwave-safe, fits in
the bowl of all sinks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">puppetstringchoked
sinkhole</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">sings a green song a salad
mean song</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">veggie stalks tangled up
in an armature wire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">a stringy ooze out of
mockmilk mouth utters</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Copyright © 2014 Paul
Cunningham</span></div>
Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-47816109641278090172014-03-13T22:38:00.000-05:002014-03-31T16:31:02.236-05:00Featured Poet: Roberto Harrison<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><b>plural consciousness</b><br />
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">not this face<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and its cohort, a
body<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and the face has many
minds—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the countable and the
uncountable and empty strings “”<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">it walks beyond the
mountains<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">where there are others in
that desert panorama<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">so removed from space. and
the pain of split eyes </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and of being more than
one<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and of switching to build
on Origins<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the certain
acausalities of a plural consciousness<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">an entire people of
profiles<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of computer parts and
sounds and a throbbing Light<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">primordial and far
before<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">is the unintentional truth
[on the ground]<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">known to the lesions<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">perplexed by questions of
the feed<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and by the other lines.
and for that reason<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">their body cannot balance
itself on the enormous neuter egg<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and never sleeps in
flight. but the blindness<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">gets planted with sunfish
and shoveled into ossified domes<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and it becomes a horror
and a random seed()<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the submerged and Unit
ear<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and cannot be dreamed
about with its rabbits<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as those minds have left
the body asleep and apart<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and now are separated by
many Starts </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">attached by a single
strand<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">invisible sinew. it
becomes,<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the body becomes<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">a husk for the colors of
corn<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">a putrefied husk with a
smile of the bus<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as its afterimage<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and a sorrow of the
bus<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as its frontal lobe. it
moves with a black rat </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">snake and separates the
other animals<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">so that they too
shrivel<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and become like the muted
clouds<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">not of this terror. this
body becomes<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">indistinguishable from the
jungles, and the news of the frond<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">welcomes its poverty. it
moves beyond the landscape </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and desires itself to be
one (and a two-toed Sloth)<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the planes for which
the word becomes less<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and more than light. it
dissolves to portray its anti-subjects<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">like the animals of long
ago, and it witnesses itself </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">become cybernetically unified.
but this is only a question<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">without symbol. it moves
to be antecedent to the imagination </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">but is not recognized as
such, it submerges<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">its most horrifying trees
into a lesser season and drought </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of correction and comfort.
it realizes<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">its evils must be seen and
felt, and so, on that day<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">it becomes mineral, and
moves to be a putrefied aspect of wholeness<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">in being skewered. and no
word can place it with others </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">because its muteness
revolves around its own Sea<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and it becomes the
question for answers, and the answer for questions, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">but nothing more. and this
body equates itself with the earth<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">in its seismic and sharp
attributions, in its lessening waters, in each<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">expression another form of
syzygy. it often weeps in its thoughts<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">without a body, and it smiles
in weird ways<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that betray the weather,
and it says things and does things<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that it no longer
recognizes. this body is softened with its minds, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and its horrors were
turned into fragrances and tanned leather<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">by the many cyber seeds of
the Mound. it cannot understand </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">its own secrets, and it
cannot see the metropolis of a wound<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that it knows it is. and
one day La Tulivieja </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">will become synchronized
so as to harvest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the sun’s healing and
destructive powers, so it aggravates<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the soils of a home for
more plants, and the jungle then resists<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that its panoplies and
layers dissolve the rails<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the trains of the
wrong, and that they service the master<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of interior regions, so
confused by the chieftain </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of harvest and loons on
the days that wear away<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the soft electrocutions of
the everyday. the chieftain absorbs<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the windowed necropolis
where his people, and those of the she-world<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">witness and absorb decay.
the wanderers of this interior </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">force the crisp attention
of the less than life<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to warm each possible
response to the raiders of the trains </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and the wind of this
plural consciousness which arrives<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">with the marks of the page
to undo the only light and the only count(*)<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of this region for the
lost, in this equated reverse of completion<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">where someone ashes the
counts of another rain to absorb their light </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and their darknesses, in
the less than bought and more than free<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">which witnesses the end of
number, and absorbs all the marks<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the Chooser of absence
and orphanhood. in their attached body trance </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">someone absorbs La
Tulivieja with hir Intermediate Areas<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and (s)he becomes just a
knot, and this is a word to absorb the interior’s climate<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">on that holiday of sorts
where the weather rises, and where (s)he, the invisible one </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">comes to me to
remind me of my erasure. this song of erasure<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">does not count for your
afterimage in the less than countable rite<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of mythologies and
reference. do you feel the attachment of this soft song?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">where I am not I, in this
weather of promise and recursions </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that decays and absorbs
each of our numerous<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">corporations in the wonder
world of executions and the council fire </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">so gigantic and guarded by
the others. they are moving<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">in this desertion to
unwind the releasing tense of the door. to unwind </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the approach of their
targets to renumber their attack</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and place hold the skin
service. they do not want<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">their only council with
their only chieftain to be a part of the smoke<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that each holds for the
heart of the isthmus, that new service<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that attaches itself to
each consciousness, so divided and One and not Two and ~~~~~~~<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">ritual number. they wear
away the programs of cascading sides<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and they pick the service
of the trains to amount to the ride of the dispossessed<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">those wretched that the
chieftain had become and was and now…. but the putrefied sweetness </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the bees no longer
attends to the animals as they grow so wild. on that day<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">with the sun at its
warmest we ride to the western mountains of a digital<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">oblivion, one more
attenuation and one more cross of those counted wings. they know<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">by their hair that the
wolves approach from the east and that they understand winter<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">in its back and forth
connection of truth evaluations. those bruises never stop that pattern<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as the gift of life does
not endure the seasonal demands on our numbering </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">smoke. there is no plural
there. it heals itself as the body of Moons<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">except when it is lost in
a self. that endures for something<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">erased but not worn in
this element, a long and numinous husk of each origin’s fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">resumes and attends to it,
more than measure</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">number
name </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> for
Daniel Borzutzky </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">one
moved </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
then a finger appeared. a leg, a torso </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">one
moved again </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
then someone called from far away. it rang in the water </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">formed
like the lights of offering </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">more
people knew more languages and they flew </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">one
sentence </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
then two sentences. their faces wavered </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and a
whole country was mute. they offered their voices </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to
roll upon the earth and confront the ships. </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">once,
they went nowhere. their approach to the Sun </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">was
given in steps. the network of stars </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">would
not amount to service or to the lines of amputation </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as
they emerged from the earth. and they saw </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that
someone held the innocent. but experience </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">would
not hold to a single self. the screen </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
afterimages would amend and portray the lost herds </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">for
the reasons that silence would absolve, for the amount of people </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that
they serviced in the daylight. bodies were formed that spoke </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">secretly,
in the trees. their mute literatures covered the ashes </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
their dead. they said that they were not persons </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and so
the law did not pertain to them. they moved like the light </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">but no
one understood the anguish </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
personhood. their mute literatures would be brought up </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">by
vicious dogs. they did not understand </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">the
news. their fear transformed them </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">beyond
facial recognition, beyond all security. </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">once,
they throttled and amounted to the aims </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
services. their bombs would not attach the spirit </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to
their monumental fires. they learned from the flesh </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
they knew the warmth of the straw. they were one in the time </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
offering. their books would attend to the cracks </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">in the
ground. their songs would seek others more </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">than
they were sought. they did not have feelings </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">because
they could not trust. once, there were others. </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">their
laughter moved the animals and the animals </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">sang
to them in homage, secretly. they were always together </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">with
the animals. they once again would free themselves </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">from
the world. they knew more songs and they revealed the ashes </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">that
grew to their hunger. they arrived to the other worlds </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">as
this one stopped. they moved with the wishes </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
their infancy. they were once like the Turing machines </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of
deception. they danced the fear away and they knew that someone </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">would
one day be fearless among them and change them all for that. </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">once,
they reasoned that their minds were like blankets, a warming </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">of the
flesh, and their minds radiated heliocentrically beyond the moon, </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
they stood at the surface of the Sea, and they moved with the Oceans </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to
endure the earth of cogitations and the earth of motionlessness. </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">they
received the others and they announced to themselves that they would learn</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to
speak as the light speaks. they moved to be there like one was </span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and
they counted among the numbers</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">© Copyright 2014 Roberto Harrison </span></div>
Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-65487650949880119142014-01-21T14:44:00.000-06:002014-01-21T14:53:08.051-06:00Featured Poet: Sarah Carson<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Twenty-Four Hour Grocery Store, Part I </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ron Bowman got fired from the twenty-four hour grocery store for no-call-no-shows after his girlfriend had him arrested for trying to kill her with his Tupac chain. In a meeting with both produce managers, he’d been accused of carving swastikas into the card table in the smoking break room, though the smokers defended him vehemently, though Joe Fischer took full credit for it the night he quit, running off through the dimly lit parking lot with two cans of soup and a bottle of champagne. Later Ron and Joe smoked cigarillos with Matt from bottles beneath the black lights in their living room, Matt’s fingers still ripe with Diet Coke and Sprite and 42 varieties of beer. When Matt turned up dead in his grandmother’s doorway, Ron and Joe were miles away, passed out with their heads on each other’s shoulders, having signed a secret pact between them to never let a bitch get them down. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Twenty-Four Hour Grocery Store, Part II </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maura was the manager on duty the night Bill got caught drinking and driving in the Coke van. We were sitting in her office, drawing pictures with the highlighters she kept in her top desk drawer while the Pepsi guys sat on the empty pallets in the drop trailer watching porn on their cell phones. Around eleven o'clock Bill came storming up action alley, took a 2 liter of Vault and threw it so hard against the floor that it bounced over the cereal racks and into the next aisle. The boys went with him to the parking lot where they all lit up cigarettes and spent a long time not making eye contact. Maura called for a floor machine from behind the locked door, seated beside me scratching at the incisions she'd made on her forearms during lunch. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Twenty-Four Hour Grocery Store, Part III </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">His wife found out the week before Christmas, and so he dragged both of his daughters through the twenty-four hour grocery store in search of the cashier who was causing all of his problems, each little girl with a tiny hand wrapped around one of his index fingers, the bells their mother had tied to their snow boots a flurry of quiet jingling as they hurried down the soda aisle like late entrants in a three-legged race. In the front yard that night the cops told the grown-ups to scatter, but the cashier was sure she was the only one who’d listened. For months she'd find herself pulling up next to the payphone outside the Speedy Q off the highway, dialing their number and listening intently to the chatter in the background before someone hung up. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If We Toast to the New World, </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We should toast to all its possibilities, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to Srmad in the shop on the corner, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">his window full of knock-off Nikes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and single cigarettes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This morning when we went to get the paper, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">two men were climbing out my neighbor’s window </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with her television in their arms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can’t blame the factory for that, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> like you can’t blame the Generals </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for giving up in the playoffs </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">when the stands were empty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and their paychecks had been bouncing for months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">© Copyright 2014 Sarah Carson
</span>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-35943385230042120522013-08-21T10:33:00.000-05:002013-08-21T16:36:23.427-05:00Featured Poet: Angela Narciso Torres<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>56 SANTO TOMAS STREET</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your patent shoes sink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in loam flecked with feathers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">seedcases split and empty. Already,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the summer frock you wear is short</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for your four years. Knees frown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">beneath the shirred skirt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The black purse you clutch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">was your sister’s once. Your grasp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">is tentative—you know some things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">will never be wholly yours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your father lowers the lens,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">asks you to move from the shade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the corner of your eye,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">your grandmother, a grey-white</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">blur, shakes the bag of seed. You fix</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">your eyes beyond the camera.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cage, a feathered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">crescendo, ochre-green.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your lit face</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">holds everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as the shutter clicks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>DARKROOM</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Under the red lamp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I watch him douse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">each small white square.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Side by side we search</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the shallows, seafarers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">peering through glass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for sliver of coast, rough ridge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One by one he brings us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">back—daughter, brother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">mother, son. Again and again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">within light-tight walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">he births us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>LOST OBJECTS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My mother-of-pearl pendant—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">half teardrop slung on a leather cord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">bought from a hawker of veils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and batik. A brown book of poems,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">signed by the Indonesian poet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">who sat next to me at dinner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Four words remain in memory:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“To love, to wander…” I’m missing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a watercolor of vegetable vendors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">given by my mother on the occasion </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of my first apartment. The stillness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of those nights, the last box emptied, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">searching the blank ceiling, imagining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the shades of green, the shapes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of the women—squatting, stooped, large </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with child, bent over baskets piled with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a season’s bounty. I’d give anything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to find my tape of Glenn Gould playing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the one my father </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">copied for me on a gray cassette before the age </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of compact discs. Hearing the first strains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">at Mandrake Books on Story Street,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Rosen, my ninety-year old boss,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">paused at the window, lost </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in shining sound, smooth as water </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">over stone. Idly he smiled, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">arthritic knuckles tapping time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on a dog-eared Books-In-Print, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">eyes fixed on some lost heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>ELEGY WITH ATLAS MOTH AND YELLOW BELLS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We may never see them again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> the giant-winged Lepidoptera</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">alighting on fire trees that shaded us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> at recess, our bench</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a mass of knuckled roots.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">About the size of a fruit bat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> they spread their wings like burnt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">maps across a span of leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> proving that beauty appears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to the small and lonely alike.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And it’s unlikely that anyone will discover—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> as I did, leaning into a hollow bush</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on the playground near the septic tank,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> the foliated room where sun poured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">through yellow trumpet blooms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">we could spy from our classroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Daily we wrote in cursive to the swish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of Sister Angelica’s skirts as she dusted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> a cracked row of encyclopedias,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">June rain rinsing the window glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>OCTOBER</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It’s raining when you pass the glistening </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">warehouses on the right, the overgrown field </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">down the slope. Above, a redwing veers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">off its path, seeks cover under a branch. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And suddenly your eyes smart </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with tears. Not because your son </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">just moved a thousand miles away—no, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">not for your mother who cannot recall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">her name. And not for any of those lost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">loves the wind stirs up like burnt leaves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But because, for a moment, everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">comes clear—a crimson flash igniting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a bird’s arc over the rainslick road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>WHAT ISN’T THERE</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even without leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the Bradford pear keeps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">its bell silhouette.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above, a commonplace moon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">somewhere between half</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and full, waxing edge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">rubbed like the worn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ridges of a lucky quarter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A sentence partly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">erased—a brightness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">we might have been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KmeBRfs1FzI/UhTdZDjgy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/vHtqaAjTf5I/s1600/torres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KmeBRfs1FzI/UhTdZDjgy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/vHtqaAjTf5I/s320/torres.jpg" width="257" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Angela Narciso Torres’s first book of poetry, <i>Blood Orange</i>, won the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry and will be published in the fall of 2013. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she has received fellowships from Illinois Arts Council, Ragdale Foundation, and Midwest Writing Center. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she lives in Chicago and edits the poetry journal <i>RHINO</i>. For more, visit <a href="http://www.angelanarcisotorres.com/">http://www.angelanarcisotorres.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">© 2013 Angela Narcisco Torres
</span>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-38007296669319200062013-07-16T15:38:00.000-05:002013-07-16T17:15:12.387-05:00Featured Poet: Rachel Burns<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>a singular warning</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
I.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
now with childish shivering<br />
all that i know. becoming<br />
a vessel to pass. my<br />
handwriting's gone to<br />
shit, like You prophesized.<br />
& im fantastically tired<br />
from current depletions. being<br />
this happy in counterpart<br />
brings an overcoming<br />
sadness i cannot place of<br />
produce into sustainable energy<br />
what do you do?<br />
with your morning?</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">II.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
on having a baby<br />
your house will seem<br />
like a cemetery after.<br />
it already is one<br />
with mindless response, depth<br />
marvels at the spectrum, lay<br />
in finite arms for eternity,<br />
comfortable & deaf<br />
slowly decomposing<br />
the capacity of mythology.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">III.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
last night i dreamt of shopping<br />
carts & drowing surrounded by<br />
scented candles, stripped candy<br />
& decency.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
i woke up at 11:49 a.m.<br />
weighed 109 pounds<br />
it was very cold outside<br />
& october.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">IV.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
factual events <br />
are bleak while being<br />
individually<br />
un-ordinary, various<br />
levels of spectacular<br />
pathetic.<br />
-i have started biting my <br />
-nails. this is<br />
-common, but a unique<br />
-attempt at self-nurture</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
the earth scratches<br />
it's ear & falls<br />
asleep before<br />
2 a.m.<br />
regularly.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">V.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
when we fucked <br />
last night,<br />
my vision turned<br />
into oceanic movements.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">VI.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
my previous fever sought<br />
arithmetic in historic housing<br />
it has a balcony, which it is<br />
currently sitting on, drinking<br />
coffee & smoking. the woman below is<br />
on the phone, "the topic is<br />
addiction, that's right up my<br />
alley"</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
the weather is mist<br />
rain & smooth light in<br />
direct irony with<br />
reds & yellows<br />
if i wasn't so indecisive<br />
i wouldn't be so passionate</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">VII.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
i've got another fever<br />
with similar<br />
reds & oranges<br />
tinted with i<br />
want to travel in <br />
silence. periodically<br />
checking my reflexes & heart rate</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
the ash tray is full<br />
& it's very silent<br />
now, mostly<br />
brown & damp</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
i ask for a diagnosis to<br />
carry before<br />
apologizing repeatedly.<br />
apologize.<br />
apologize.<br />
apologize.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">VIII.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
my Fever has become a<br />
contagion. spilling</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
over dishes & single<br />
spoons. where have the insects<br />
gone? where has the temperature &<br />
conclusiveness & remedy, scholars<br />
cleanliness, methylphenidate,<br />
thirst text glass, pine trees, recklessness<br />
morgue, anxiety, wonder, sex,<br />
cheese, queen sheets, subtleness, curiosity,<br />
thread & cardiovascular endurance & trinkets gone?</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Crustpunk</b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">i fell obsessed with<br />
the movement of a name<br />
forgetting the nightly<br />
apparitions demand for<br />
study a grain in my side the<br />
cyphers jump to me & me<br />
alone, i am speaking as the<br />
real Maria programmed to riot<br />
in orange wings, orange chests, red<br />
marbles, lineless rituals, M-dance the<br />
dancers spiral down. i feel alone<br />
at this hour. the post office is<br />
closed & you lost your dog, it<br />
was 7 a.m. once, then i was here<br />
unable to break the glass as<br />
Maria in fear of<br />
developmental obsession.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hello this is my banana<br />
phone yellow paint fetish.<br />
my banana phone is the cypher<br />
regrettably so, it can be<br />
whatever it wants to be.<br />
i broke my knee in boston<br />
with multiple eyes for introversion<br />
siphon my marble pillars left behind<br />
all the court sleeps as sleeping lovers<br />
drawn on bodies who catch me atop<br />
a gravel pile dissipating hieroglyphs for attention.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>latent middle child</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">my brother flicks my cigarette filter<br />
retrieves it, flicks it again, asks to be<br />
on the front page of the paper,<br />
is the secondary funeral location<br />
pager friendly? will my pager get a sig?<br />
will there be refreshments.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">alligators go into a state <br />
of hypnosis when you flip them<br />
over like sharks. i'm having <br />
nightmares about a light above<br />
my jaw, meadows with clear fire.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">dolphins rape fourteen people a<br />
year, there is a support group<br />
in florida. my brother tries to <br />
hit a goose with a chunk of concrete<br />
hey flipper, let me get a piece of that<br />
when we discuss immortality it<br />
becomes unclear which<br />
brother i am dreaming for.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The First Fall Evening as Citizens</b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">i'm sorry i take your pulse<br />
in the morning, conversation is short<br />
& expensive.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>keep finding new animals</b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">this craft held a land<br />
mine possessed <br />
mathematically pleasing<br />
features as the only<br />
onlooker sucking on<br />
checker pieces<br />
i'm talking in cyphers again<br />
who gave me this pen, this fetish?<br />
this is not a cypher for<br />
clay women's walls<br />
sleepy hellos to a tiny chemist dog,<br />
you are well,<br />
chaquita. <br />
delight with bleached feathers.<br />
why are you eating the game pieces to spite the patrons</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
oh rachel, your head is<br />
falling into the ice again.<br />
are you living as an ox?<br />
& disposing of pregnancies?</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
this is not a cypher for all strange birds<br />
throug saturn fog with no fear of<br />
rock slides or heat. you held me <br />
in your sleep last night & your breath<br />
did not change. i hoped you were<br />
asleep, i want to keep saturn for<br />
myself. i held this secrecy<br />
before departing in soft sweaters,<br />
inquiries of knowledge, capturing<br />
evidence with drug store cameras<br />
social media updates. i am done<br />
with urban cyphers, billboards. i am nothing<br />
like the Cities in immortality</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">i was going to rob a <br />
homeless woman for<br />
liberal guilt taking instead<br />
her scrolling through her<br />
apple iphone five<br />
she became a beggar<br />
once more, my yellow paint<br />
fetish did not survive the cold.<br />
i washed my face in boston.<br />
an immortal beggar with aesthetics but<br />
it's not ohio or new jersey or florida, i'll</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
refrain from speaking a cypher<br />
i love you without deflective body<br />
language & these practices<br />
ruined our status, made of necrophilia<br />
impulses. our previous<br />
cyphers share a twin bed in boston<br />
with saturn on the sheets<br />
& the sexual zeal aches, with<br />
shoulders & the poetry like<br />
a child maturing sexually in forced manner.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
© 2013 Rachel Burns
</span>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-10535389064483259072013-04-08T14:22:00.000-05:002013-04-08T17:09:14.931-05:00Featured Poet: Heather Momyer<style>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">When the girls were young,
they told me about those moments they said they would never forget. They had so
many: the trials of lost love and vows for better times, tender-hearted
sentiments of understanding and forgiveness, days that changed their lives
forever and ever, Amen. Their teary cheeks and reddening eyes faced the
distance between sadness and joy, and I wondered if I should say, “No, you will
forget it all with a swiftness that is shocking.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Who were the lovers of not
too many years ago? There were dimples, a pair of glasses, long, slender
fingers, and I wonder what we talked about. Because surely we talked. Surely we
had something to say to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The memories that
slip-slide into vision in the early hours of morning are the ones I expected to
drift away—pudgy round legs and white shoes on hardwood floors, laces wrapped
with shining, tinkling bells, the heavy footfall of a baby learning to walk,
the rattle of those bells the primary point of attention, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i>, the feel of warm pink pajamas against arms, legs, and feet,
sitting in a car, tucked between bodies of parents or a younger sister, I can’t
say exactly only that there was warmth pressed against, nuzzling in the front
seat, an ice cream cone in hand, vanilla, did it drip down chin and sleeves, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i>, the first trip to a beach and
holding hands with sister and parent, the waves splashing up to hair and eyes,
to sister’s hair and eyes, tasting salt water and giggling, and I was four
years old. All seconds in time and the feel of something against skin, or the
sounds of a wave and the bells that rang each time I tried to get away. What
and who was it that I expected to stay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“I will never forget that
day,” the girls repeated over and over again. “They are the people I will
always remember,” they told me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Did I love my parents in
the times I remember nothing at all? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I suspect I thought
nothing at all until just a few months ago when I know I started thinking of
oceans and whales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Remind me of being touched
and made of hands. When did I become a real person? Because I do not know if I
ever have. Yet if we must, I’d like to pull my own strings now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“What does this mean?” I
may have asked. “Does this mean anything, anything at all, to you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I
remember standing on the planks of a whaleship, and we harpooned them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The
little deaths came from your hands you said. Always—again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And
suddenly I understood the flurry of the whale, and it was not as you said, not
at all. They were dying with blood and vomit, and I could never touch you
again. Together, we tore off our hands. We wrapped them in rope, made nooses
around our wrists, launched our weapons into the bellies of the whales. Palm to
palm, hands severed and missiled over hearts larger than our own, fingers tied to
touch wet black bodies after we let them go and sent feeling into flight. The
death that came from our hands was not the ecstatic fling into mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We
gave up our hands so now there is nothing to hold. There is nothing. There is
no hold. There is nothing and no whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The
sperm whale has always been a mythical beast. It is so enormous that no one
takes one on as a pet, no circus or carnival show will hire for its presence.
It lives far from land in waters far from me, and I will most likely live my
entire life without ever coming near a single such animal. The sperm whale is
fantasy. It is imagination, dream, and the collective memory. It is kraken, or
unicorn, dragon, phoenix, griffin, the three-headed dog, Cerberus. If it
chooses, it could eat me alive, ingest in a magical gesture of appetite, then
purge my bones and send me back from whence I came. To Nineveh you go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Finally,
I remember something of lyric and verse. On my back, you drew invisible vines
with your finger. They grew taller, and you traced leaves with nails and told
me stories I had never heard before. I could almost say that from behind me, I
heard you speak as if your voice had come from behind clouds and rain and walls
of thunder, but perhaps I wasn’t listening carefully enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I simply thought that none of us
could drown. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hjw9vKNyPGQ/UWMdhDh9LRI/AAAAAAAAATA/kLQufIKqJCQ/s1600/tb2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hjw9vKNyPGQ/UWMdhDh9LRI/AAAAAAAAATA/kLQufIKqJCQ/s200/tb2.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I
never said what needed to be said. I should have listened to Jonah. But I
didn’t because some bitch took my tongue. But I didn’t because I gave it up for
some idea of love and feet that only knew how to walk on land. To drown would
be inevitable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I
never knew what the Princess said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The
ocean is both father and mother—Poseidon and the Venus half-shell. In the
bathtub, I would wind the toy whale and let it go to swim around me. It was
blue, I think. The turning crank was white, I think. It is an image I can
almost grasp. Of course, the mechanical toy may have simply sunk instead,
clanked its head on porcelain, rocked in an epileptic fit until the crank
stopped turning and its insides were quiet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">How
much water must I wade through? When will I come clean? My wet skin wrinkles,
and I am growing old. I listen for parents but cannot hear—only the winding
clatter of plastic chitter-chatters over the last thirty-some years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">On
the ship’s deck, our vein blood flooded into whale blood like tributaries
flowing southward into the River Styx, and if the ocean god himself were to
take a sip, he too would lose his voice—nine years speechless, nothing to say,
no tongue for the ears; nine years no one listens, no ears for the tongue,
muted with all six canine eyes watching in the dark. “Come in, come in,” the
dog mouths softly, and the crew hacks and peels, pulls at what lies beneath the
surface of the skin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">As
I had no hands, I was little help in the filleting of the massive lung-fish,
but I hardly forgot the spear that opened those lungs for the tides of waves.
You went below deck only to emerge later with two iron hooks fastened to your
wrists, and I could not decide if you had just become more or less dangerous. I
wanted your fingers wrapped around mine, but I suppose even then I would have
let you pierce metal into skin, hoping there were barbs, hoping one of us could
hold on again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">What
is it that marks our evolution from the mud? Speech? Art? Or is it simply the
thumb? Mine, I folded it into fin and counted the notes in underwater
vibrations. I thought I would jump overboard, just to dig toes into silt and
sand. I thought I heard sisters calling and murmuring, humming along to some
half-formed song playing in my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">In
Australia and New Zealand, the calling of the whales is the calling of the
ancestors, but I’m not from that part of the world. My ancestors were not
whales. My ancestors were also not Quakers, so they probably weren’t whalers
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m told that they were from
many different parts of Europe, but there is little to be said for them. I do
not know their lives, but I hear there is such a thing as muscle memory and I
wonder if my arms and legs remember something that I cannot put into words. My
mother said I learned to walk when I was nine months old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I almost remember learning how to swim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">When
the ship caught fire and shone with oil blaze, the only thing to do was to wrap
rope to stake and burn like another Joan of Arc. There is nothing to admit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The
Princess ran to throw girdle and calm the fishy dragons that circled the boat,
but you were there with hooks and lances to slay them all. I saw you spear the
dead whales, again and again. Among embers, the bits of finger and bone that
still clung to ropes and bodies dropped to the water and the soot was in the
air. I could already hear the bells begin to ring, and the three masts lit up
with twisted and knotted sails burning like satin sheets, damp with the sweat
of some holy lover and fiery ghost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Martyrdom
is another romance genre, but when the dove flew over our heads, I shot a
flaming arrow through its breast to see if it could begin brand new. But there
was no time because there is something monstrous in your system of divinity, as
you always knew, and the eagle talons cut through the smaller bird and carried
it away. And maybe that eagle came back for you—I can never be sure. You were
gone, and I burnt with legs around the center mast, and ash floated on water
and crested the waves. When the ship went down, I clung tightly to the wooden
pole until the sea slowly put out the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Of
course, little of my life is remembered with any bit of accuracy. I can’t prove
anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">According
to parents, I was born on May 24, 1975. I weighed six pounds, twelve ounces. I
was twenty-one inches long. My mother said my birth was easier than one
sister’s, almost as easy as the other’s. Labor lasted two to three hours.
Perhaps my greatest achievement and most adventurous moment, and I remember
none of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yet,
what I do know is that when I was born my whole body, including feet, legs, and
arms, was red and wet and glistening, as if I had just swum down the longest
river coming from the deepest ocean, as if I had always had lungs for the
water, as if I could never drown because I had always known how to swim and I
had just simply forgotten during this one dry moment on land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">& now it’s i’m sorry ma’am we don’t carry that model any more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">w/ brimstone and fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">w/ limestone and salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">w/ teardrop diamonds</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pomposity is my
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">w/ their youngsters forever frustrated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">w/ their oldsters no longer longing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 here is nothing but furious</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 there is nothing but four of us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">& Bombay is my favorite sapphire</span></div>
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Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-8811376160979548372012-07-14T23:17:00.002-05:002012-07-18T09:45:11.402-05:00Featured Poet: Evan Nave<style>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">a joke about it. My
new</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">born ideas were
fluorescent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and tasted like</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">yeast and sour
breast</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">milk.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> What is the name</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> of this </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">man</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> child?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">one of the prophets
yelled</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and rent his clothes
with ashy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">fingers. My father
and my father’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">father lay their
hands on</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">my shoulders and
said Jack</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the ripper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> Richard</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the lion heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> and a used</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">car salesman but
it’s all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">in his head nothing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">written in stone or
any</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">thing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Postmodern cherubim </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">sat on the ledge</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">of a dumpster and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">laughed about the red</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">mud of identity and
all</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the nudity involved</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">with childbirth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Mean</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">while my shriveled </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">everything was cold</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and my mother sensed
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">it and swaddled</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">me in a big</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">mac wrapper she
found</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">on the ground. In
the moment</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I understood at
least</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">conceptually
convenience</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and I thought it
smelled</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">like diarrhea.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone saw my
sneer</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">face and took it </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">wrong.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A high priest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">looking man in</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">strapped sandals
rushed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">over grabbed a
mirror</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">shard stooped</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">down and sliced</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">off my foreskin</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">tossed it over</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">his shoulder into</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the dumpster while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the cherubim flew</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">back to the north</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">pole.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> Men take </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">what they are</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">given and pretend</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to like it</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">til they die it’s
like</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">being a rodeo</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">clown get it he
said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Circumcised and
destitute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">there was nothing
left for me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to do but wait</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">out the sting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">so I bled and baby</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">babbled a
lamentation</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">if this is how it
feels</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to start how bad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">will it hurt</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to end?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> (Alley cats dry</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">humped to the
existential cricket</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">chirp silence.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The prophets over</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">heard me twisted</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">their beards
whispered</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">together looked at</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">me sad and said</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">wanna hear </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">a dirty joke?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> There’s no rest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> you know</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">not even</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">on the sabbath.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">To Calvary</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Sunday school
shoelaces </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">waxed in maple syrup</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">against the rug burn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">if it rubs it</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">starts the fire in</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the chafe. Melt into
the cream </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">carpet puffed up
pink in the palm lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">One bunny ear hops
in circles, dead drunk through the meadow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">all the way home to
strangle bunny</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">two with its hear
listen close. Thou shalt</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">shout ‘til the red
from the cheeks ripples ‘cross</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">cartoon soothe
giggles animated presto lips</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">shout the tick tock
upside the hush</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">puppies from
Payless. Moses parted the sock seam</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">across the crushed
toe cuticle, deaths drowned there in</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the salt, in the
plagues pumped to the ankles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">tied up tight to
choke the slip from the sweat hell</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and high water rain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> reign</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> go away</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">back into the cool
between ice water</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">coos from mother</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> goose</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and her brood of
tickle fingers</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">up the side stitches
to the tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> tied</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">pockets dropping
tithe quarters.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Pay the devil. Cross
the trickle into no man’s land</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">scribbled peach with
crayon and scratched </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">crooked with the
minivan bump.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Memories of Generational Anxiety</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8ish</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am playing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">baseball in a maroon
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">t-shirt. The white
elastic </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">collar is
overstretched and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">itching my neck. I
think</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">this collar droops</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">because I have too
big a head.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">There is something
wrong</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">with my head.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">3</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the pediatric wing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">of a hospital
holding a stuffed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">horse. My father has
a six-pack</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">of 7Up cans on his
lap. He says</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">you had surgery on
your</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">ears. I think I can
hear</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">that and how did I
wake up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">from that crocodile
pit?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">4</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am crying </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">from a cut</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">on my index finger
holding</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">my grandfather’s
pearl</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">handled razor blade</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">from the
Philippines. I think</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">World War II has
ruined</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">everything and I am</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">selfish.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">9</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am reading </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the Methodist hymnal
in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">a back row pew.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A woman with a rhino</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">plasty looks me in
the eye</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and I decide that
there is beauty</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">in the world and her
nose is</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">not it so I should
throw up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">12</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A plastic figurine
of Pittsburgh</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Penguins great
Jaromir Jagr sits</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">on my father’s oak
desk </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">shelf. I had my
mother buy it</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">for him because the
J and J</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">sounds felt good to
me and I</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">thought dad would
like it. We</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">are not a hockey
family.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">11</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am watching </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the world’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">strongest man on
television</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">in the family room.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">My mother hollers
something</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">down from the
kitchen. I holler</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">something back up.
She comes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">down the staircase and
says</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I shouldn’t holler
at her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I should walk up to
the kitchen</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and speak at a
normal volume.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">She walks back up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the staircase and I
think what</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">does Thomas
Jefferson have</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to do with any of
this?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">11ish</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am standing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">in the staircase.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">My parents have sent
me </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">to my room and I am
giving them</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the finger and
mouthing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the words fuck and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">you. They can’t see</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">me. They watch</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">television and I
worry</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">about the ten</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">commandments.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">4</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">the backyard my
father’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">friends are building
a tree</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">house for me and my sister.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I crack my head </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">on a gas-powered
generator</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">and think there is
pain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">in my head where</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">is dad?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">14</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I am hugged </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">against my aunt’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">breast. My
grandfather has forgotten</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">how to play our
favorite card</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">game and has given
up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">trying to remember.
He starts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">shuffling the cards
and </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">mutters to himself
there</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">will be blood my
aunt says</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">don’t worry his mind
is else</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">where. I say where. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">She says in the war
our</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">family’s minds are
always</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">at war it seems. I
think</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">is it in my veins my</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">mind to war worry
and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">we used to play</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">cards before all
this.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">With Weather Like This,
Who Needs Prophecy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Your permanent smelled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">like Kip’s Burger French
fries </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">on account of the
umbilical cord being filled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">with coleslaw. I heard you
pipsqueak </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">from your love handles,
the pinpoint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">above your left hip, and merci
beaucoup </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">for ice chips from a
basement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">bleached cafeteria fridge.
Water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">on the tongue numbed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the labor in the arches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">of your feet. Thanks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">for the name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The doctor flipped a coin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">for plug or outlet,
electricity in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">my crotch crackled like a
Christmas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">tree and when George
Washington landed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">face up I sprouted a man
and choked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">out purple. People in
moustaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">cracked about college
football and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">wrapped me in a Midwestern
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">onesie made of cornhusks.
Organic,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">gluten-free garments still
diaper rash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You rubbed gluestick on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">my ass cheeks and put me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">back together again. All
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">against cheeks and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">against neck skin. Breath
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the base of the skull and
between</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the shoulders. Still from
the ice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">chips cold. Support circle
of busy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">bodies bustling around my
blood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">my blood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Even with new eyes I
stacked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the hospital floor tiling
in columns</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">of eight. Rows of eight
and outlined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the constructions with
spittle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">from my soft spot. Order,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">order. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night Court </i>played on the hospital</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">TV fuzzy with tax-paid
static</span></div>
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ate oyster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">crackers and burped up the
answers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">to my questions: “Are the
stacks straight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">enough to keep us safe or
are the rows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">wish-washed in ammonia and
sponge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">bath? Should you have
called me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">out as Samson in spite of
all this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">hair?” Never mind,
Delilah, your gypsy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">jewels shone pretty in the
wheelchair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">chrome, and we rolled out
in chariots</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">of amniotic fluid,
baptized</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">into this war. </span><br />
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Mala es la flor Arizona,
o visita estatus norte de tu flor en Arizona, o visita estatuas ofrendas feces
nadir norte, dar entierros aúreas fosas, tattoos o flor terror en Arizona, órbita
estatutos botos, sed, turno ah! dar turno a tu fénix o ir igual afuera, igual ufana huera flor adónde,
orbitar a Arizona de visitas tu voz, activar chopos ahí
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(hisopo blanco y ley)</div>
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15 personas, aun con tracción,
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16 Auguro útero a dios lee esto, voz, voz.</div>
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17 Vi deber carrito ver. Levitra ripio pena
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18 violaciones coma</div>
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19 auuchh veía social se cura y ti? Ameri-</div>
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20 cana Eva arriba da son google medicina rí-</div>
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21 o duero, o raza! google me y leguleyo, a
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22 aguileño un—ah fiera! rey un de churros</div>
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23 uva este id. Url feed, blogger. South
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crédito</div>
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25 forastera, for our country. Mecanismo ver
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26 el bayoneta fleta onzas bien. Di con
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27 ve con sud tu pro ibid. desfilan o voz
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32 un auto alienar oeste man red INRI ver-</div>
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38 nena bien jean rhys foro + nación,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Arizona SB 1070: A Homophonic Translation</b></span></h3>
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session / wanted to / stop a living / act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Men live in fear of Arizona, or visit statues near there of fear
in Arizona, or visit statues of frightened faces near nothing, there in tears
in our faces, tattoos of our terror in Arizona, or visit statues bitten, sawed,
torn and then turned to a fence or a wall of fear, a wall of any word for
ending, or if all of Arizona revisits statues, and if art chopped here all of
our Arizona, or visits to a dissection of our event, of our relation to
lawfully present lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1</span><span style="font-size: small;"> See a person who
violates this section as guilty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Words justify
the house in dollars,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the violence in
hate, full of armor I legalize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Is fear an
object to find in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5</span><span style="font-size: small;"> rivers of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Is it under our
love, ours, our vices too. Is amen read</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7</span><span style="font-size: small;"> under the love
in empathy. Is a line of rope en-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ough for our
volume of n-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ecks. I feel a
noose inside our riv-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: small;"> er made of fence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: small;"> An employer shall
not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> If </span><span style="font-size: small;">we name a race,
contract an other toward a r-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: small;"> iver, drag
remainders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: small;"> to work for
us--our alien, our right to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: small;"> personness, our
contraction, our line, our form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Our other violates
us, us, us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">17</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Beat the other
river. Say trash rips open and foreign</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: small;"> violations come</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">19</span><span style="font-size: small;"> out breaking
social security. Ameri-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">20</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ca never arrived
as some foreigner in a riv-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">21</span><span style="font-size: small;"> er, or as a
foreigner illegally, a noun--</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">22</span><span style="font-size: small;"> hardly a noun--a
feral race on the shores</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">23</span><span style="font-size: small;"> of a state. Hurt
them, lawyer. Shove violence in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">24</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I fucked her,
shoved it inside her, scripted it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: small;"> for her, for our
country. May I never touch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">26</span><span style="font-size: small;"> her violated cunt
again. This subsection shall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">27</span><span style="font-size: small;"> be construed to
prohibit the feeling of us and our-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">28</span><span style="font-size: small;"> s. My fear is a
river over-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">29</span><span style="font-size: small;"> flowing our race,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">30</span><span style="font-size: small;"> our national
origin, as if they were</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">31</span><span style="font-size: small;"> us also, under our
noise. All</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">32</span><span style="font-size: small;"> unauthored aliens
are waste mired in river-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">33</span><span style="font-size: small;"> s of our agency,
mazes of state-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">34</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ment. One of us is
an attorney for our count-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">35</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ry, for our
authors, authoriz-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">36</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ing a whiter
government for us, to get the dust out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">37</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Their river is
dust relocated, emptied</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">38</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in a bin gently
from a nation, churning, stir-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">39</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ring into us, in
me, ours. A surer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">40</span><span style="font-size: small;"> author than us
will verify our governed person-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">41</span><span style="font-size: small;"> hood. Say this is
our version of life as a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">42</span><span style="font-size: small;"> failure of us. Say
we are this section of faces at r-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">43</span><span style="font-size: small;"> est in war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1</span><span style="font-size: small;"> After an
investigation, the attorney general or county attorney</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2</span><span style="font-size: small;"> determine some
plan. This isn’t a frivolous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3</span><span style="font-size: small;"> need here for
learners to find</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4</span><span style="font-size: small;"> status. Migrate
into us in formation. Author us alien.</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">5</span><span style="font-size: small;"> What river
country holds all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6</span><span style="font-size: small;"> of our meanings
in the horizon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7</span><span style="font-size: small;"> there, sure
enough for us not to try to cr-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ross over, to
not see if the land</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: small;"> is really filled
with horror</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and revulsion. A
sun set on us he-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11</span><span style="font-size: small;"> re, against the
Arizona tourist air,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">12</span><span style="font-size: small;"> where rise alien
employees or lawyers and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">13</span><span style="font-size: small;"> attorneys all
drenched in a river of violen-</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">14</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ce. Say this
occurs before rivers. Show us the end.</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A view of this is
based only on an author’s alien w-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">16</span><span style="font-size: small;"> orld that morphed
during a short r-</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">17</span><span style="font-size: small;"> evolution of this
section, our section, our subsection A.</span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">18</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A foreign actor
researched a r-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">19</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ole dying in a
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<span style="font-size: small;">21</span><span style="font-size: small;"> If I dive into
this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">22</span><span style="font-size: small;"> one, a river of
line as described in our graph here, what is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">23</span><span style="font-size: small;"> on the shore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">24</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A short order:
Return nation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">25</span><span style="font-size: small;"> unheard alien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">26</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Be ashore, reader,
for us. Tether your</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">27</span><span style="font-size: small;"> fear to our fear,
for the current is a line</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">28</span><span style="font-size: small;"> perforating the
rope. In a river we flow where</span></div>
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proven to tear us f-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">30</span><span style="font-size: small;"> rom every other.
This is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">31</span><span style="font-size: small;"> location, our
authored line for a reader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">32</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Color it for us to
ride off with. The</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">33</span><span style="font-size: small;"> country in here is
safer, ordered</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">34</span><span style="font-size: small;"> off as a state.
There is remain-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">35</span><span style="font-size: small;"> der in this. Say
and. The fear will</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">36</span><span style="font-size: small;"> inch away, lurking
on the horizon instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">37</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Courts ordered the
appropriate agency to U.S. lines, subjected</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">38</span><span style="font-size: small;"> this division to
our reality. Fear here is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">39</span><span style="font-size: small;"> a signature.
Division trained our signs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">40</span><span style="font-size: small;"> for order. I is
all I, an us that are suspended under this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">41</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Dive in here, in
us ending at river, in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">42</span><span style="font-size: small;"> aid of a white
country not white anyway. Our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">43</span><span style="font-size: small;"> view is fences,
our stately</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">44</span><span style="font-size: small;"> terror fences, for
ours is divid-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">45</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ed. Hours spent
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seconds work against the influence of skin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And salt. And ocean. What direction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The city vanished beneath sternum has to be resuscitated, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">resurrected by a stranger in the next seat over </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Melissa Severin</b> is the author of the chapbook <a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/brutefact.html"><i>Brute Fact</i></a> from dancing girl press. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Years later in school, Pookie heard the story of the man who flew too close to the sun. Excitedly, she raised her hand; this was one of the few times anything in school had seemed familiar to her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Miss Taylor! Miss Taylor! Pookie said, frantically waving her arm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Yes, what is it, Shawntelle? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie hated her full name but Miss Taylor said nicknames were disrespectful and refused to use them. School and teachers just didn’t make any sense, most of the time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—I saw him, Miss Taylor, I saw him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Saw who, Shawntelle?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—The flying man, Ickuss, I saw him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Now, Shawntelle, what have I told you about making up stories? His name is pronounced Ic-AR-us, and you couldn’t have seen him because he never really existed. It’s just a story, a myth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—But I did, Miss Taylor. He never wore any clothes and lived right across the street from me in the big TV building and one day he flew out his window. . .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Shawntelle! Miss Taylor said sternly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>— . . . all naked and flapping . . .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Shawntelle! Stop this nonsense this instant or I’ll send you to the principal’s office again!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—But that was him, Miss Taylor, I know it was. Mama told me he was just some crazy white boy and Aunt Sarah said he was probably drunk but . . .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Shawntelle! That will be enough. March yourself down to the office right now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—But, Miss Taylor . . .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Now!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Yes, ma’am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As she walked slowly down the hall, Pookie remembered the day she first saw the naked white man. She had been on the tiny balcony of her family’s apartment looking at the large apartment building that sat on a hill across the street. To Pookie, it was like having a nine-story multi-screened TV to watch. As the youngest, Pookie didn’t have much say in what appeared on the family TV, so she preferred to go out on the balcony and see what was happening on the other side of the sliding glass patio doors (that also doubled as the living room windows) of the apartments of her big TV building. Sometimes it was pretty boring, like when the curtains were drawn, but no one could make her change the channel. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On that particular summer afternoon, soon after her fourth birthday, Pookie had been at her usual post, standing at the balcony railing watching the sun set and the rush hour traffic crawl by. Every so often, she surveyed the ninth-story windows of the apartment building. It was hard to see </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">anything that high up, but the curtains were hardly ever closed on that floor so Pookie always gave them close attention.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then she saw him. His glass doors were wide open: only a screen and railing stood between him and the open air. He was leaning on the railing, smoking a cigar, and he didn’t have any clothes on at all. Pookie had seen her brothers nude many times, so she knew the man was naked, even if he was white. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—What’cha lookin’ at, Pookie dear? Aunt Sarah asked her, as she came out onto the balcony to smoke a cigarette.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—At the naked white man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—What? Where?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Up there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Aunt Sarah followed Pookie’s finger up to the ninth floor, leaned forward to get a better look, then began laughing and pointing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—Hey, Ruth, take a look. There’s a white boy flashing the whole neighborhood!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie’s mama stepped out on the balcony, took one look, snorted in disgust and grabbed Pookie’s arm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—C’mon, that isn’t for you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—But mama, Pookie protested, I want to stay outside.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>—I won’t have you staring at naked strangers. He may be stupid, but it just isn’t polite. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie turned to take one more look before she went inside, but by then the naked white man was no longer there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie saw the man several times after that, though he was never naked again until the day she saw him fly. It was rush hour again and Pookie was at her usual spot taking in the world. Her eyes methodically checked each window and then she saw him again, naked like the first time. It was difficult to tell, but this time the screen was apparently open, and the man appeared to be standing outside the railing, hanging on with his hands behind his back. Pookie looked around, but her mama and Aunt Sarah weren’t nearby and Pookie wasn’t going to say anything to change that. She turned back just in time to see the naked man stretch out his arms and dive in a slow graceful arc. At first, he seemed to drop straight down, but just before he fell out of sight, he swooped into view again and began a series of wide loops over the parking garage that sat just below the apartment building. Pookie was so excited she began to clap her hands and squeal with delight. Somehow the man heard her over the traffic noise. He looked her way and smiled. Pookie waved to the man and he waved back. Which was a mistake. His swoop began to fail and the man began beating his arms, but it was no use. He fell headfirst onto the roof of the parking garage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie screamed and her mama came running. Her mama didn’t believe her story, of course, even after the ambulance came and the fire department arrived with their ladders to take the body off the roof. But Pookie kept insisting until her mama finally sent her to her room, telling Pookie she would never be allowed out on the balcony ever, ever again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sitting in the principal’s office, Pookie resolved never to tell adults anything they hadn’t said first. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What’s the use, she thought. If they can’t fly, they think nobody can. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie closed her eyes. She remembered the naked white man’s smile just before he fell, how the light from the setting sun made his skin shimmer like gold, how he hadn’t seemed all that upset about falling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pookie opened her eyes and looked around the office. The secretary was bent over a filing cabinet, so Pookie slipped out the door and headed outside. This would be a good time, she thought, to go looking for th</span>e sun.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-24576855063326694452011-03-27T23:48:00.002-05:002011-03-27T23:51:22.730-05:00Featured Poets: Eric Elshtain and Greg Fraser<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I’ve Been Called Worse by Better</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The army but a livid red</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">beside the girl the night’s censure</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">obscures. The freedom around the country</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">laces a dialogue ’twixt strictures</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the population bills. A Nixon plan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">approached the cottage a lot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">in Haiti when the man in Fort Defiance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">thus was fitted into the fires</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">that destroy the pride and few</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">occasions on the island. Spies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">her lips were smiling to attempt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the standard works, a proclamation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">made the same June two tweens disappeared</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">from Hotel Abyss. Then the war began,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">surrounding them in a new divine affect,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the crows flying and upholding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the market and the movement,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">a wracked condition akin to declining.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">What lies beneath the saddest lists?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Empire versions of ourselves.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The summer America changed its name</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">to Hotel Abyss, the girl and you, in you,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">followed the arc of night’s censure</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">to a cottage, it seemed, on a freedom shore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Your dialogue, laced with Nixon, war,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">and population bills, were standard works,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">while innocents got fitted into fires</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">by sartorial troops, and spies surrounded lips.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Those rotten empire versions of yourselves,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">those proclamations and saddest lists—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">to what red island did they disappear?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">What became of livid occasions, few</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">as they might have been? Now the crows’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">flight seems akin to weak declension,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">and conditionals flaunt themselves as new</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">divines. <i>If the girl, then you, then she would,</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">if you were.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> That was the plan, at least.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The June plan. Before she shot back East.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Little river, clouds in the door,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">who else went walking down</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the day? Not socialites who sneer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">at the baggage grunt, not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">dustmen or the landlord sore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Each to each in a brown cafe . . .</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Such words make a little dwelling,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">for I have heard long sighs,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">and had to drown the sage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Still, with time the giant senses</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the background, garnished</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">platters, London fused to glass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The sentences keep growing,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the full weight of the unforgotten.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Impossible to measure on demand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Each cafe each heat. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. .<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">These things make a small apartment,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For I heard many sighs,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And had to sink the statement.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But over time a huge sense</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Background, cut</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Sheets melted, London on the glass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Rates continue to grow,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The full weight of forgetfulness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Be measured on demand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Gotta get off the schneid,” says the Padre,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Keep yr hands in yr pants</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">& yr gold in the air, my son,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">where the ducat crew can't reach.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Got my melting pot in the cellar</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">& enough paper clips</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">to model my car after you, sugar—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">name it something Greek</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">paint it the color of tea</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">drive it 'til the wheels burn,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">maybe California</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">where the cabbage is orange.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I got yr stereotype all set:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">brunette & all that that implies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">My logging-camp scrip</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">will get us in the commissary, baby,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">if we can stomach the flood</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">& weather the tolls. Is there a farm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I have lowered a shoulder and bulled my way in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I have stripped you down, bulked you up. Tinkered,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">toyed, toiled. I have wakened early with best intents,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ignored the brandished fist of the noonday sun,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">watched dusk zip the city up in sequins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And I am left to translate, Poem, my failure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I have failed just like the sea, trying madly to climb ashore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Like gray moths batting the porch lamp, seeking rapture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I am acutely aware of ashes, the cast-off dreams of fire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Like an only child of four or five,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I have curled inside a blanket</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">and ridden in the back alone . . .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Is it because the prairies seen from airplanes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">are sullen <i>de Stiles</i>? Because high wheat serves biscuits</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">without a hairnet, & a pigeon dropped its business,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">just this morning, on my just-bought navy blazer?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">If only the elders hadn’t slaved for epochs inside their truths, Poem,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">if only my brother’s hands weren’t clawed from birth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Poem, with your thoughts like a jagged coastline,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">your fly’s-eye vision, your radiant, untouchable privacy,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">like sunlight trapped in trees, you have left me to curse</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">the Rec. Room, Chicago, early October, to wear my hair</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">like a screwball. You have covered my mind with semi-hard plastic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">like the cowling of a boat motor, or a junior-high football helmet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Have I sneered too long at revelation?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Have I fallen deaf to whispers from the grave?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I have fingered your blood like paint, and made a living will,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">choosing to pay the earthworm not of the mortician.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And what little, Poem, I have to show: <i>barges of fog afloat</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">on a river at dawn; monkeypod wood so perfect for salad bowls . . .</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The spider instead achieves her work, connecting this to that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">to capture passersby with the practically unseen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And to think: just twelve days ago, you appeared</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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erring the heart beats against the heart’s place empty <br />
enlaced in its wispy elevation <br />
where two skeletons used to rub elbows eating<br />
vintage etymon either <br />
embers ending in <br />
electric exhalation or the repeat button stuck on <br />
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eclipse the Christian name for the end of naming<br />
evergreen et cetera <br />
everything from A to Z enameled<br />
emptied of its enthusiasm<br />
estuaries eager to dry off in the low tide <br />
ebb and ebb a plume of oil in the light dispatch<br />
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earthworm eavesdropping on all those who came before<br />
through an eyelet to elsewhere<br />
where enlarging edelweiss from seed<br />
earwig history is endless<br />
full with the eyebrows of dead heroes out of earshot <br />
under an eyelid eyestrain eyewitness <br />
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earmarking his sepia memories with an eyelash <br />
an exit we all eke out<br />
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earlobe to earlobe <br />
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gaga gaffing again war is a story about Armistice Day <br />
goodbye-kisses do not change the channel gay<br />
grinning war isn’t all good<br />
grief the war over what’ll I ware I’ll ware the gravedigger <br />
rainfall ‘gainst my skin gloss <br />
grenade war stories headed over the hills glowing<br />
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I kiss the war grizzle who shall kiss glottis <br />
gin I shall kiss strangers the day the war ends glistening<br />
gut every gesundheit<br />
in its ropy gristle gripping at the daylight <br />
glad to spur us on from the roadside grumbling<br />
graphic in the twilight grain <br />
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garbled vernacular with a mouthful of gravel <br />
galumphing gleaming<br />
grinding its teeth into the gnashing plank of an old whisky<br />
gone with a forest gulp<br />
gurgle Dane thoughtful brute getting up on the castle<br />
gab all gone in the root<br />
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giddy wind go St. George in the fields dented<br />
glad blown in his semivowel garden<br />
some lay down to gainsay goal-tending a pair of dice <br />
galley slaves guide <br />
gullible go-betweens while the attic sisters rust<br />
give of garlic in sharp warbles <br />
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ghostwriter poking in the graveyard with rounded fingers<br />
all gemstones and grasshoppers <br />
grainy but grammatical <br />
griddlecake smells waft up the grapevine in cartoon<br />
guesswork as Goofy <br />
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gutters gasping what’s that in the dark<br />
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the gate clanging on grandpa’s gander <br />
gunman shushing the greyhound <br />
grindstone or gunshot <br />
galloping god no that’s just the fiber talking <br />
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<b>Gene Tanta</b> was born in Timisoara, Romania and lived there until 1984, when his family immigrated to the United States. Since then, he has lived in DeKalb, Iowa City, New York, Oaxaca City, Iasi, Milwaukee, and Chicago. He is a poet, visual artist, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. His two poetry books are <i>Unusual Woods</i> (BlazeVOX 2010) and <i>Pastoral Emergency</i>, which was selected as a semifinalist in the Cleveland State University First Book Prize in 2010. Tanta earned his MFA in Poetry from the Iowa's Writers' Workshop in 2000 and his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009 with literary specialization in twentieth-century American poetry and the European avant-garde. His journal publications include: <i>EPOCH</i>, <i>Ploughshares</i>, <i>Circumference Magazine</i>, <i>Exquisite Corpse</i>, <i>Watchword</i>, <i>Columbia Poetry Review</i>, the <i>Laurel Review</i> and <i>Drunken Boat</i>. Currently, he teaches creative writing online for UC Berkeley Extension.<br />
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<b>Poet's Note: </b><br />
"E" and "G" are from <i>Pastoral Emergency</i>, my second book of poems. It contains 26 poems, one poem for every letter of the English alphabet. Each line of each of the 26 letter sections starts and ends with a word that starts with the section letter: exceptions made for music and idiom. These interventions in the abecedarian tradition stretch out to a sequence of 63 pages. The abecedarian grid or scaffolding or structure of two six-line stanzas per page helped me realize how the book wanted to be written: the form taught me that this book wanted to be written at the level of melody and sound rather than at the level of sense and cohesion. Unlike my first book, <i>Unusual Woods</i> (BlazeVOX, 2010), it came as a huge relief in the revision process of <i>Pastoral Emergency</i> that the logic of the abecedarian form allowed me not to concern myself with how to order the various letter-poems. <br />
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© Copyright 2010 Gene TantaSteve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-71214771583443827452010-08-13T21:08:00.009-05:002010-08-19T19:33:35.958-05:00Featured Poet: Larry Sawyer<pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">
<b>From Promontory of Liminal Field</b>
These embarrassments
of elocution
The worn and morose
grooves of existence in their
refrain
pockets of light
the bee-eater’s exclamation
the sting of speech
plasticity of
your rapid confusions
whereby
brute morning accordionlike
sweats
collects as rivers in the chest
as a pimple of amber
encases Paleolithic flight
from promontory of
liminal field
in endless sessions
the wing
extends its razor
millions of summers ago
meanwhile incalculable exits
open each night
the moon’s Braille curtain.
<b>Honolulu, Indiana</b>
We anthologize
the weather, in small
post-nomadic c r o s s i n gs
Did our forebears’ gelato?
Were they more prone
to neither
as long as anyone, beneath a maze
of green leaves
sails
barque of February or
soup of June
seasons become
those who most
patiently row.
Let us such buildings stretch
out, reach in their
stead to the sky
for some meaning.
<b>Still Life with Arctic Monkeys</b>
This dream of gourmet
Cameras, where we
Bless this walking through the desert
Hand in hand with every known creature.
My reason
Batting Kafka eyelashes
Loads the ark with
What sounds like rain.
This paper museum.
As they float inside your poem
That we should give praise
For these icebergs blue
And rejoice in their teeth
Says the Kingfisher,
Astride the Empire State building.
Preciously await faith’s unveiling.
Holding your hand inside
My kaboom and cerebral
Map. That we were witness
To that throbbing Vegas
And wrecked caviar castles.
Each little now in
That springlike yard
A piano key upon which I play
On birth’s label
What corduroy typewriter.
<b>Blistering Dinner Party</b>
Neither was in the neighborhood of necessity, these strung out along the shore. </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">The composer’s waves, his chauvinist forehead should be fair game, as were </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">Audrey Hepburn’s locks on TV. Both reclining on skates to emphasize the precarious </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">position that we inhabit inside each second, as if encased in another drawn curtain </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">to conceal the huge faux fur letters, the day’s signature. Unconcealed emotions, were </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">they left to their own devices at the blistering dinner party, predatory crocodiles of </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">both sexes. The film blurs and the accompanying music is so annoying we cannot </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">concentrate on our invisible novels.
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Color of Perfect</span></b></span></pre><h1 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 63pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> These waves, a metaphor for antiquity<br />
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Don't walk alone through this world<br />
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In a spasmodic memory think of the ocean and<br />
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Smell history in the waves' stagefright.<br />
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That the afternoon’s indifference<br />
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Its cumulative tone<br />
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Silvered assonance.<br />
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The slow and arrogant cadence of the waves<br />
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Above death<br />
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Immune to the zodiac<br />
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The ocean exposes itself.<br />
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<i>The ocean is its own gynecologist.<br />
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Its lyrical voice hovers somewhere just south of<br />
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Genre, oblivious yet embodying<br />
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A definition of hunger as <br />
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The ocean extends its bloody tongue to pronounce<br />
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Murder and also birth, both are<br />
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Equal to its Rococo foam.<br />
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<i>The ocean is a swarm of always<br />
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The square root of its own illumination.</i><br />
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Its essence is well spent<br />
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The ocean is eating itself <br />
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Its dinner is generative.<br />
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Remarkable in their large blue<br />
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The waves have quit their employers.<br />
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After their departure<br />
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After the long lives of the public servants<br />
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The ocean lives in seclusion, like<br />
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Han Shan, observing some unspoken agreement.<br />
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<i>The ocean is our insurance, our doubt<br />
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Could we simply translate its complaint<br />
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Comprehend its angry eyes.</span></h1><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">
<b>Learn As</b>
It etches the ice.
what was and is.
Like the passing moment, half cuts
I search for
warmth,
change the heart’s channels
moving.
Each
embered conversation
Échoppe of
noon’s singularity.
Leav
es
in its
throat.
Larry Sawyer's debut collection <i>Unable to Fully California</i> is forthcoming from </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/">Otoliths Press</a>. His chapbooks include <i>Poems for Peace</i> (Structum Press), <i>A </i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><i>Chaise Lounge in Hell</i> (aboveground press), <i>Tyrannosaurus Ant</i> (mother's milk </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">press), which was recently included in the Yale Collection of American Literature, </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and <i>Disharmonium</i> (Silver Wonder Press). His work was recently included in <i>The </i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><i>City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century</i> (anthology, Cracked Slab Books, </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">2007) and <i>A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration</i> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">(anthology, DePaul Humanities Center Press, 2009). His poetry and literary reviews </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">have appeared in publications including <i>Versal, Chicago Tribune, Babel Fruit, Vanitas, </i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><i>Jacket, MiPoesias, The Prague Literary Review, Coconut, 88, Hunger, Argotist, </i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><i>Pinstripe Fedora, Skanky Possum, Exquisite Corpse, Court Green, the Miami Sun Post, </i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><i>Ygdrasil, Shampoo, Rain Taxi, Van Gogh's Ear</i>, and elsewhere. He edits <a href="http://www.milkmag.org/"><i>MILK Magazine</i></a> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and curates the <a href="http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html">Myopic Books Poetry</a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/larrysawyerpoet?ref=search#%21/group.php?gid=69558130626&ref=ts"> Series</a> in Chicago.
© Copyright 2010 Larry Sawyer</span>
</pre>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21405714.post-19127269688281101232010-06-26T23:35:00.000-05:002010-06-26T23:35:54.596-05:00Featured Poet: Laura Goldstein<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>pay/phone</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">AUBADE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One doesn’t make a bowl of cereal, bowls of cereal just happen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">is what I’d say if you were sitting across from me at the breakfast table <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">right now. 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style="line-height: 115%;">one doesn’t make a potato pancake, potato pancakes <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">just happen, and a plate of potato pancakes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">would appear in front of us, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">cooked, sauced, forked and ready to eat!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then I’d say,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">one doesn’t make honey and brown sugar sausage links,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">honey and brown sugar sausage links just happen,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and a plate of sausage links <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">would appear in front of us, honeyed, browned, sugared<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and ready to 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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d eaten too many crackers. I couldn’t get anything done—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">not even think about getting anything done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doing things is important, Mike says,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but I like to get things done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wanted to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">pay ten dollars </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to ride on a bus with teenagers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and have an intense spiritual relationship with a wolf. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead someone pushed me from behind,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">placed a bag over my head</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and drove me around the suburbs, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">occasionally stopping</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and forcing me to photograph churches, hospitals and circuses. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whoa, I thought. Look at this baroque architecture. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This was what I’d been waiting for. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>POLITICS AND RELIGION</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday at the lagoon</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I watched frogs mate with a Colombian guy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He had a fascinating frog-man superior race theory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s so windy here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sky is like an ocean. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It feels so weird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I had a washcloth </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d run warm water over it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d lie on a bed and place it over my eyes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d take sleeping pills. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d begin writing a book. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d call it Politics and Religion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At night we’d bandage ourselves with gauze and visit restaurants </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to delight others with stories of what happened:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">realized we had no breaks,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">confrontation with alpaca at petting zoo,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sandboarding mishap on active volcano.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is this it, you’d ask. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But we get free food, I’d say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then there was the I’m filled with rage part.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then there was the I’m filled with love part.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then there was the I’m filled with sadness part.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then there was the driving around part.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then there was the confusing part,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the embarrassing part,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the part where you found yourself without pants in front of a group,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the part where you decided not to live a lie anymore,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the part where you ask </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">how many meatballs I’d like for dinner, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and I say, just this once, let’s see how many I can fit into my mouth </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">at the same time.</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>DARK ENERGY</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">She apologized and delivered a message of tolerance <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">may complete one story but only begin the next. 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<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Does she name the kitten Snickers? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Does she set aside a saucer of milk and cry herself to sleep? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As she cries herself to sleep, does Snickers lie under a quilt next to her? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Does Snickers lick her hands, purring? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Do you like this story? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I like to buy stupid magazines and set aside entire days to read them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">That’s funny because I like to buy smart magazines <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and place them in a pile and never read them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I like to cut them into small pieces, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">arrange them on construction paper in a threatening manner <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and send them to loved ones. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I love how, in your head, I hate you means I love you, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">if you don’t leave I’m calling the cops means stay forever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Here, people are kidnapped from their own homes and I don’t like this!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How I wish our tears were made of strawberries! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Do you remember her husband? 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</style><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">© 2010 Jason Bredle</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Steve Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769771494940856319noreply@blogger.com0