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The Song of One Hundred Thousand Chemicals Approximating Sunshine
‘This is the Song of One Hundred Thousand’ by Ariana Reines This is the song of one hundredThousand chemicals approximating Sunshine in my hair. My lover bit My cheek this morning. I think I’ll Fall from one trance into the nextMight fall asleep any minuteIt gets tiring making yourself looklike you’re alive while you’re lookingHard…
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On One Leg (House Beautiful)
prokofiev cobham & darnielle circle one’scrown blue llama equilateral wingedwhat have we hereseen? a photo in a photo in a magazinemetaphor boils the potafter a jot spills its ink hungover an fim-92 stinger whichlike i said before is no metaphorat all al gore despondent speaking to late modal fordsdon’t forget mass production the cruelest bearda…
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Good Blue Clay
Tanka, by Ono No Oyu The city of Nara of good blue clay glows like a blooming flower, now at its prime Source: Ono No Oyu. “Tanka.” From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, edited by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 43. Photo: Church…
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An Urge to Flex Everything
‘Solidus’ by Ron Padgett Why am I making myselfdo and be things that I don’t really want to?Because I have an idea of what I should be doing and/orI don’t have an idea of what I really want to be and/or do.And/or both. I seem to be very and/or,with an urge to flex everything until…
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The Fiction of Time Destroyed
‘Anticipation of Love’ by Jorge Luis Borges Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day,nor the favor of your body, still mysterious, reserved, and childlike,nor what comes to me of your life, settling in words or silence,will be so mysterious a giftas the sight of your sleep, enfoldedin the vigil…
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Valzhyna Mort & Henri Cartier-Bresson, Postcoital
violent global apocalypsearen’t you worried brrthe mirror ball playing with the toddlerin the parking lotso meaningless: music in the air there is no belarusianversion of this poemshe turns the therapist to 11 we no longer think in colorthere’s only colddark and not dark the prism handles the restthe first third and fifth courseare the cheapest…
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Hackensack Rally to Stop Police Brutality and Racist Violence #blacklivesmatter
All photos copyright Joe Gerace, 2020 (please email for usage permission) Hundreds gathered on a sweltering June afternoon in Hackensack, NJ, to call for an end to police brutality against people of color in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. Organizers provided a platform for members of the…
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Paterson is Yours
blood-bunny lays on false facealone in encouraging corners halogen burns —it is relevant to observe— spanish communists hidden in bowling bags and electricteeth gnawing at gates of dawn soon we’ll all be frozenbelly of lake coronavirus deep unremarkable remembrance of celebritysuperstition swirling around salon breeze transfixing artificial and drunkdo i hear guitars preserving structures of…
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To Psychoanalysis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 938 after Kenneth Koch to die. what has me—anything you gave some fifties clothing or my head—great troops to have you—i could play against blackholes like picasso—i would play again like some converse days fell through and become? you look the karen horney kind all—other something screaming sobbing you gave me any…
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My Webby-Award Nominated Poem
Wikipedia Poem, No. 934 boundary between gaza and israel the boundary between gaza and israel the last year on the boundary between gaza and israel the great march of the great march of the last thought on the last year of the last thought on the last year of the boundary between gaza and israel…
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