Joseph M. Gerace
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America
Wikipedia Poem, No. 667 an acquaintance a friend a neighbor even see especially women friends and neighbors seen especially as women friends and rivals called to attend the splicing of a useful rope to invoke a less-useful loop later familiar or idle talk about our lingering smog of eighteenth century exploitation explode the old english godsibb…
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“to bed a cricket / stroke my goatee”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 666 to bed a cricket stroke my goatee i dance from side to side now furrow my brown house sparrow flutters in a fruit bowl with whom am i arguing crickets then go to bed obsess over critics crickets and poets both lord over their own right hands squeeze the…
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Gratitude
to wear so many rings your fingertips refuse to meet to pull up skin-tight jeans to slip on a pink tube top without being asked to find what’s in your pocket what is in your pocket? to be known for a particular hairdo to smell the way you do to be brilliant without being moved…
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A Conversation About Frederick Seidel Between an Elementary School Teacher and a Hungry Upper West Side Pigeon
Wikipedia Poem, No. 665 either upon this trace of tree an endless sea and home how do ye murmur out in barren mazes or cyclades or the islands of king solomon one-off i want to become and that i want to become and then i want to become a legendary cameo pinned on i want who…
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RNG (Robbins v. Goldsmith)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 663 in that particular place at that precise instant virtue in late fall sniff modernism rhyme disappear from poetry sometime in late fall sniff jealousy the primary output of modernism rhyme disappears from poetry sometime next week early winter is that sunrise or sunset culture moving thereby the young reproduce like culture…
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Preghiera di Gerace (Manifesto)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 661 after Mario Merz y& simple body nature current dynamism language no culture no merchandise misunderstood &y able to provide material was his earthenworks as well neo-data nouveau réalisme post-war statements of ur-minimalissimo programmed into existence poor povera pobera pauvre arm бедные עני فقير x one of his own surprisingly able to…
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Cyclops Lives by Herding Animals
Wikipedia Poem, No. 660 in ages of strategy find form of war yellow highlight the location i see before me six disloyal but touching memes earn unseen-careful paroxysm of stormy sea-monster made of myth ether and yoke upon yore upon fathom a revolutionary stratus the mythical canon can must mean grow
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Harold Rosenberg
Wikipedia Poem, No. 657 harold scrape scratch chisel wet in wet with hair dryer worse the camera one learns proper representative hand and i am me so i will click quit impasto but i will pee first so goodbye johnny-man thickness primarily comes to miniaturization flay scrape tint of lip rosenberg
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Galway Kinnell (Ugly Poem)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 656 Robert Bly Is Still Alive Robert Bly Lives Robert Bly Breathing Robert Bly By and By Robert Bly Will Never Die Robert Bly Blinks One Eye Robert Bly Winks Is Winking Sinking The USS Robert Bly Goodbye Robert Bly, Goodbye!!! book to date was iron john: a book award for poetry…
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Polyphemus in Napa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 655 all that mighty oneself one sees stretch online glassed by the trees its easy eye and wine glasses lost in branches by the pain that’s remembered her sea bottom home for suede flash stupid save oneself from love you see selfless be come classless seawine in a park ing lot terrible…
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