Joseph M. Gerace
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Daedalus (Black Remix)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 579 for language symbolic this mothers’ death was a life he bestows on her—her surrounded now— his mothers the composition for a life bestown on her—his mothers—only through language symbols like black water then anorexia or an anorexia of rage like black water to jung a presence in which exorcise a substitution…
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The Two Orchard Thieves
Wikipedia Poem, No. 577 these two orchard thieves a series and a brother the spirit seems somehow yet feminine oily laughs when campfire staircases rise up like milk our bodies sculpt a cheap iron colocynth breaks our ranks touch again doves watercourses a campfire family laughter incorporating me as simple as poetry is a series…
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Protest Chord for Taylor Swift
Wikipedia Poem, No. 574 first to oxford with crosscutting pilgrim-mages then to mount calvary to dialect’s grave then back to age of baroque nicknames to roman locks and nave to your beloved trapped in pun then back to pun itself where we find the beloved scrubs feet of dialect
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On The Media
warm we link arms before the brawl breaks our ranks we touch again ineffectual fist to ineffectual face we are touched again to be peeled apart sprayed toward sobbing and held again in rapturous pain do you remember now singing by torchlight? do you remember the strange sounds of which we are capable? the moan…
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“Mocha Panties” by Arielle Greenberg
You have your skinny pants that you never wear but that are the barometer. You have your fat pants that you wear more than you need to. You have your period pants that are dark and thick and forgiving and comforting. You have your period panties. I have a new resolution not to wear my…
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Apokellipsis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 573 of the nave beloved in the pun on the name calvary above cemetery often with kalwaria zebrzydowska near kraków the age of baroque nicknames roam in catholic churches imitation of sorrows john calva chews roman catholic skoal a golgotha apart roman catholic crunch two cans used for cemeteries the nave named…
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Three Feet
Big chocolate My wife found one on the internet With only one foot
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Family Happiness (Nondidactic)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 572 they move today as was written hold that sound against one of they move today dog hyper-aware and read by complex formations me she or has gone they move today perspicuous improvisational solo explain more clearly they move today it is being written hold it against one’s patience they move today…
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