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‘The lingering summer heat is brutal isn’t it…’
Katsuhiro Otomo, Young Magazine, Oct. 3, 1983
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Vicious Mercy (Vermeer in Death Valley, 2020)
Leave Vermeer alone. When I write The girl is dying I do not mean to enter the girl nor deconstruct her state of abstract goingness. It’s a figure beyond an open window in a time of plague. Disemboweled skywriting or the family name forgotten in water. Which is to say: Vicious mercy becomes the uncountable…
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Cloudbank Intensus
Wikipedia Poem, No. 930 silver eyes hung in kohl thereis where you mean by sky conquereryour poem its peppered nacre variegated really your eyes dotheir many crushed blue tilestoo much of an aerated thing dispersed sky strange good skypeppered thing long black eyeshung with magick rhyme yourselves after Kazim Ali’s Explorer
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Chelsea Manning
Wikipedia Poem, No. 922 i’ve found you in contempt either until you purge yourself or the end of the life of the grand jury either until you purge you in contempt either until you purge you in contempt either until you purge the end of the end of the end of the end of the…
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Someone I respect is putting on a play.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 853 put on a play pliant appeal so what is putting on a play grow through here and grow through there crystal-sutured words i’m sure he can drive the honda crv its lithe dogwood takes root in these crystal-sutured words i’m sure he can drive these crystal-sutured words i’m sure he can…
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Three Portraits
Wikipedia Poem, No. 823 Chicago, 1910 and have general charge of the trees in the treetsnd have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the forester were to advise and assist persons wishing to advise and assist persons wishing to advise and have general charge…
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Nathalia Crane, Introduced to the World!
Wikipedia Poem, No. 789 or else plays her everal publicated wish the stupid silly book nathalia had been brought short — Brooklyn, May 4, 1924
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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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