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Two Poems

if you go poof with a lip and a matchrubbing a lip on a sparkand on a vulvaand on a rosebush the color of a…

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Narnia

today let us go to sleep nakedlike an ordinary husband and wife like loverstake off all our clothes pants cardigans sweats parkasstuffedwith passports medicines flash…

Someone Famous

I once dated a man who wanted to be famous and loved only that which might give it to him.  I sat inside my unfamous…

Van Gogh

I must reimagine my life, as I imagine wheat fieldsendure their controlled burn to make roomfor the spring, and my hand blots houses in rowshouses…

Issue Thirteen

Locating the Wound

The occasion occurs like all dreadful things: erratically, zippy-paced.An electric shock, a hornet sting, a nail’s peck upon the sole.Briefly and at random, plainness halts…

Issue Thirteen

Three Poems

A Little Garden Room, or Assisted Living And will I arrive tomorrow also?Here today doesn’t count. The project is at 1 o’clock.The project is a…

Issue Thirteen

Two Poems

Seasons probably everything is going to be eventually terriblebut right now the prose of a forklift reversing into a garageconsumes me and it is very…

Chef

Not everyone goes on. Electric eel played outside    the window. I ate perogies: boiled, tucked with potatoes. I poured vodka and did not drink,

Lonely women make good lovers,

sings the man on the country station, but that’s not how I remember loneliness: mostly too drunk to feel anyone’s pleasure, and the next morning…
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