Poetry
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The mussel hunters of Kangiqsujuaq
Just half an hour, the narrator explains, / until the tide returns. I watch the hunters / work to pierce an aperture, human-sized, / / in the ocean's crumpled mantle. I...
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le Cirque
In the dream I have head lice— / the only girl in the troupe thus disordered, / diseased. I share a soft room / / covered in mattresses. No one minds...
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mutagen
the first night of the first time she is sold, / / she imagines herself becoming a tree, undergoing / strange metamorphosis, / / daphne and peneus both. shapes herself...
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Medusa Rides the Greyhound
Everything is rain. / Ocean and land have flipped / for one another. Day's becoming night / and I swear I see a hydra swim up to my window. / He looks...
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Lip Point for Bearded Women
Board Meeting Minutes: Fiscal Moon, 2078, Skyrise / / Hinky corporate suits toil / whisper fervent words / over glossy boardroom tables, / pray to politicians, shareholders / and two barely...
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Amber Alert
This wavering sky and dust-up / leaf-slinging winds charcoaled as massed / crows chasing Tippi Hedren, or the / / clawed rail line whir of cloud bellies / bearded with rain....
Goldenrod
These days, I lean into darkness: ten times / over, I sing madrigals, sign cards. Sweet times / / find their vowels in birds’ wings, radial syntax / of carpus, metacarpus,...
Moose Factory – d-dechs tags
you traced yourself in vivid green and blue / after southern cousins, streets, brick / made alive with tags, / quiet illuminators of the / bleaker corners / trash bins, rusted /...
blason de la poule
her feet are two twig fingers grasping at grass / her legs support an ark that tips like a / theme park ride, frequently stuck / / her feathers are packed...