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‘Transformed Creature’ by Liu Xia
Translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern You have a strange pet— one eye is a cat’s, the other a sheep’s. Yet, it won’t socialize with felines, will attack any flock of sheep. On moonlit nights, it wanders on roofs. When you’re alone, it will lie in your lap, preoccupied, slowly studying…
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Protected: NJ Transit Poem
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‘she said in strand’ (Determiners)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 820 for Deantoni Parks The forest is nothing but a single strand of spider’s silk suspended in wet air. the woman on the silk bus spiders forest asked if i was suspended jewish of is i said what she said in strand nothing are you jewish i said single but my father…
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War Poem (American Horror Story)
a woman on the bus asked if i was jewish i said what she said are you jewish i said my father was jewish she said good i said nothing she said there are a lot of good jewish people i read the bible every day i said nothing she said we’re going to…
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Welcome to Lotus Land (after Tony Hoagland)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 816 Because therapy heals all worlds: Welcome to Lotus Land. The workers the proletariat the sea-mines the TSA Agents of the Mind shoot back to zip me away from gnosis. Their neon swims across my whimsy metrics in the small, air conditioned room. Whales tornado a hundred thousand phrenology busts. Warm, oozing…
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Bayway Refinery
Wikipedia Poem, No. 815 The blood red light slick on my sky binds skin to skull. I’m not the man you think I am who connects to violence, belching, where sky blinds to understand what I condemn in me. What I connect to skin, to violence, I loved first on the internet. I can’t have…
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A Raspy, Screeching Hiss.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 814 A piece the size of me. We float downstream’s surge. Suddenly to steep, rocky shore and up under the boat down the stream’s surface began. The hotel has provided a nice razor set. I see how far down a submarine. The pain: the trip was small, not powerful, contained in more…
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Laura Dern
Wikipedia Poem, No. 811 this year’s winner and gators abound the toothy young scrapes out the old his time often made drawing limited drama the tails and fins but it’s a rough look book repainted his time only possession of very limited vision for poetry great at a very young age scrape out his time…
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