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Going to Minsk
Wikipedia Poem, No. 481 dough stuck to eat (or stop cannibalizing it never ends all the dumplings will never end all like a black rabbit head such improbable writing plastic trimming never ending all like a rebus poem the throat himself (or a stand-in for the paris review facebook page someone somewhere must care about…
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Pronoun Disaster (Saints That Maketh Their Grave)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 476 he she his saints maketh are the grave that maketh are their themself you he she his letter saints her letter saints and to them they themself they make him self your saints her saints that marketh their grave theirs the lord that killeth and maketh the lord killeth and maketh…
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‘Lightning Bugs’ by August Kleinzahler
A cruel word at eventide and night zips up like a spider’s retreat. Go back to your febrile needlework. We shall not be chasing lightning bugs in the tall grass tonight. Put the whiskey on the shelf and let us speak calmly of money. Source: Kleinzahler, August. Live from the Hong Kong Nile…
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Mary Ruefle
Wikipedia Poem, No. 437 best case clitics a doctor in exile for his weird name notes that his patient notes inflect particle daughters (i’m with flesh the victims repress popular 45s or cheap vector images pressed in the factories of the sun mary ruefle’s munificent markers derive healing clitics if the litter loves god…
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Muriel Rukeyser
Wikipedia Poem, No. 431 remain consistent a commitment to an apt description of her feminist activities garnered her our twentieth-century coleridge our neruda organized protests against the whole of her remarkable femininity a woman a jew a jew a jew a jew a jew a single multitude the trial of american poetry an apt description…
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Poetess
if one would iridesce greed one two three patterns emerge one skin of ochre two blood like blood three one can do nothing to embrace one’s poetess hang a snare one two three from the nose of a fox one two three what awaits one there one spiked leather collar two three a black vinyl dress one’s beard…
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Belted Kingfisher
By substituting X for their name We begin to blue-grey a flicker rate Between eyes, nose, ears and mouth. The subject doing the describing, For instance, receives big panicked gulps And must not be allowed to employ simile Without supervision— How liberating! Now, let’s consider X a revolutionary— Stephen Dunn once wrote as much While…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 312
appeal appeal appeal appeal accounts infrastructure why does oedipus go to freytag’s pyramid what is famous for what innovation according to the most important aspect of thebes is a good plot structure the most important aspect of thebes among other things sophocles is in a good plot structure why does oedipus go to thebes in…
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