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A Poem Cannot Freeze Time
electric om of fridge spin/fade of digital cube which is no cube at all dog’s breath irradiated larynx fixed, forgotten swallow This galactic lick of nouns to verb And I burn the dictionary.
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Cosmopolitan Bias
Wikipedia Poem, No. 570 the forest thick with dread cut by compulsive slashes bearing no particular reward through the forest thick about hunger masturbation nation online video games reading about hunger masturbation of crackling wilderness a dozen cups of crackling no particular reward through the forest except forest think of a dread wilderness a dozen…
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“What Rings But Can’t Be Answered” by Rebecca Lindenberg
You are beautiful as a telephone, colors of bone, rocket ship, and cocktail lounge— Hmm, says the neon sign, starting an unfinishable thought. Where do we go from here? I’m a balloon, each minute you don’t call is a breath you blow into me. I want to be the crackers in your soup, I want…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 388
perfect new evening not cracked open in the maté and why? probably it backs into this poem is his catch his poem is safe from couples swallowing will not crack open on a pier at noon in the maté grass and prepared to toss it back in maine i worry that perhaps the sitcom couples…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 356
lithuanian kenčiu suffer what arouses pity arouses pray or sorrow from the greek pathos suffer pakanta grief sorrow from the weak patience sorrow from the proto indo european kwent to suffer endure source also of old irish cessaim i suffer and penthos suffer endure irish suffering feeling feeling feeding emotion calamity literally what befalls one
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Dennis Doherty
Everything Have I seen you bikini’d? The air solidifies around the sound Of your waxed body A love song Yes The men smoldering on the sidewalk Have a conversation about Hades Reduced to vapor Southwest Virginia Nothing Encasement of cultural cache in nylon Tied in a neat knot between keen Shoulder blades Pale duvet on…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 271
asymmetry kanso the irregular simplifies in one fluid expressive tranquil kanso simplifies the circle a disciplined creative non practice of calligraphy once used forms platos perfect objective strength elegance mind incomplete and the former a case of character allowing reason toward brushstroke why apply sumi-e enclosed in might the man is born perfect dies…
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