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Orpheus Charming the Animals
Wikipedia Poem, No. 646 A note for readers: Each occurrence of an asterisk in the following poem represents one slow, deliberate breath in through the nose (at least three seconds) and out through the mouth (at least three seconds). Silently count each inhale and each exhale. You are permitted to think about anything at all…
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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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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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“The Sausage Master of Minsk” by August Kleinzahler
I was sausage master of Minsk; young girls brought parsley to my shop and watched as I ground coriander, garlic and calves’ hearts. At harvest time they’d come with sheaves: hags in babushkas, girls plump as quail, wrapped in bright tunics, switching the flanks of oxen. Each to the other, beast and woman, goggle-eyed at…
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Ariana Reines
Wikipedia Poem, No. 530 Driving 80 down the Turnpike, I begin typing into my iPhone: I’m obsessed with petri curls UV fancy s longways Transfixed a Paver Sears zebrawood w they do but know What babe brand r u Burning steel Fine particles panicked began priests W us Celine too They do fast response day…
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Quartet
Wikipedia Poem, No. 525 a trap what you could reveal what you’ll have to remind your story when its over pause briefly to say: which driver a trap? here this arrangement of twin twigs you’ll have to remind your story pause a truth which drives the trap what you could reveal what’s your pronoun? how…
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Hypovolemic Fantasy, Eros, Alone
Wikipedia Poem, No. 502 verbing hot and heavy like a lover’s wet mouth after dark n u my mirror body itself comes separated skin from skin from skin from skin torn from skin like peeling paint from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from skin from…
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Denis Johnson (1949-2017)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 491 his lips laid & rising with the warm goodness of theory there they wept rivers over their alphabet that would not congeal despite how grave their wound who inter their gravity
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