Poetry
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J’adoube
i. gambit / / the rags still half-soaked with turpentine and resignation / petal the floor beside an antique dresser or / perhaps contentious puddle of cooking oil slowly dripping /...
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Tyne & Wear Criminal Gallery, 1871-1873
Roman, Kirk, Grieveson, Workman, others. / In for thieving. For false pretenses. For more thieving: / money, boots, a donkey, another donkey, more boots / and clothing. Their own coats (buttons all...
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Vegas, Baby
Debating between trading vows at Goratorium, where jaded gargoyles / guard the procession, or a 24-hour drive-thru wedding; Eros / missing in action. / / To wear remnants of an old...
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wakefulness
the critics are all out tonight, a plaid lump of them / has festered in the corner, reciting headlines and statistics / flinging hyperbole from their intellectual trapeze / / drawn...
fugitive
spring: the river swells unabashedly and / takes what it doesn’t own, pulling the soft / earth into it, taking, taking. / soon we don’t recognize what has always / been familiar:...
Grief, oranges
Never again will you do this: / peel an orange, its rind coming away / in ragged, cloth-lined cups. The globe beneath the skin / mapped out with white degrees of longitude....
Kelly Block Fire
A man is cuffed to a / wooden ladder. His body / transfixed as if the old / hag is sitting on his chest. He / cannot run or act. A piano...
ode to ee
i dream of / ee / / pygmy / stylist / / lord of / small holdings / / he with / swift feet / / lilliputian /...
The Knowing Animals
In a wood stirring with elk blood and rorid air, / the invisibles were all ears: all lays and hoofprints. / / I heard one miles deep — / a bugle from...