literature
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Monadnock
Wikipedia Poem, No, 691 in some countries hair pilcrow blossom falls she is you remember that a good husband avoids a cross time bothers neither alluvial husband nor empire husband nor backwoods husband nor line them up on my own thread across time i return to my collapsing honey-clings to my life my wife that…
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Hizb al-Kanaba (Neoliberaling on el-Sisi’s Slacks)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 679 can subscribe to the cause of death before their relative’s body could be caricature in modern egypt it is closer to reportage i have personally seen the medical files of polished brass shaimaa el-sabbagh hizb al-kanaba “in many other contexts this would be caricature in modern egypt it is closer…
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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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Portrait of John Berryman
Wikipedia Poem, No. 645 so do i am exhausted in the end of our minds this instead of our minds this instead of our minds instead of our minds this the end of a heavy cold the end minding the cold speaker and spoken to our annual knowing being offered up to us i have…
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Bottlebells
Wikipedia Poem, No. 603 jake brake mass transportation i hear their teeth am nude amongst blood who won’t pay attention bucolic clangors suspend themselves behind the slow rise and in their teeth hear crickets terror to rise and the sound of commerce jake brake mass bottlebells* ringing some behind terror some afore some despise this…
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After Cellini’s ‘Perseus with the Head of Medusa’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 590 pain if you ever forgive me i’m not silent i’m not know that premere il fiore il dolore il labbro già mi perdoni i’m not dischiusa meraviglia che orgoglio smisurato perché son debole d’argilla di una fibra dischiusa meraviglia che mi cresce dentro non so che chiama fibra di decifrare weak…
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Daffy Duck and Don Draper Explore Post-Coital Dysphoria
Wikipedia Poem, No. 589 “Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.” Galen of Pergamon this is not the first time we’ve sweat: at the dark tower there were two of us, intellectual properties conflated under moonlight. not the author the author does not control the crumbs it’s easy to…
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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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