{near, some}

FIRST / SOME RECENT POEMS

~

[musics, other]

(the spiritual
nudes
of a mother’s
bomb squad)

ghost of no

/ a longer

you

~

[errata musics]

the hand
is a thing
unfinished / the father

is a father
urinating / to feel / followed / it is all

so bare / a barber

is never
missing

~

[ain’t musics]

this story again
my flat
brother
on his bike
with baby possums
eight of them
under his ballcap-

the mothered vehicle
of home, the doubled
kindness
of road
and kill-

how taken
from heaven
we lived

~

[sibling musics]

a found grief in these eggs that scar the pan

–

moon
gives mom
a toothache

–

if you can, bed hunger.

that sleepy
mirror…

–

not news
to your double
my death

~

[musics]

a tongueless form eats from the psalm of your shape. I say birth

you say
assault. we are code

maybe
for embed. our mother pawns

the paw
in her stomach

hoping to afford an impression
of the hand
that created
hands.

I have prayed to a cautious god.

~

SECOND / SOME THINGS @ {isacoustic*}

i.

Jessica Dawson, one of our recent contributors, whose poems, so easily, ask…is having a hard time asking. Please, if you can, check out the below gofundme, and give or share or write a note to self.

https://www.gofundme.com/hmcfd6-just-need-a-little-help

Jessica’s poems will appear in volume third of {isacoustic*}, and are here:

https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/21/person-jessica-dawson-three-poems/

ii.

recent contributors to isacoustic*:

Lana Bella
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/06/person-lana-bella-two-poems/

G.B. Ryan
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/06/person-g-b-ryan-one-poem/

iii.

my wording, insufficient, but these things say it correctly:

dark acre by Canese Jarboe:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/04/dark-acre-poems-canese-jarboe/

patient. by Bettina Judd:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/29/patient-poems-bettina-judd/

VOID SETS by Michelle Gottschlich:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/24/void-sets-poems-michelle-gottschlich/

Inquisition by Kazim Ali:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/19/inquisition-poems-kazim-ali/

Third-Millennium Heart,by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen:

Third-Millennium Heart – poetry – Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Adrenalin by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated by Catherine Cobham:

Adrenalin – poetry – Ghayath Almadhoun

One Throne by Rae Hoffman Jager:

One Throne – poems – Rae Hoffman Jager

hooked through by Sara Moore Wagner:

hooked through – poems – Sara Moore Wagner

Saudade by Traci Brimhall:

Saudade – Traci Brimhall

Indictus by Natalie Eilbert:

Indictus – poems – Natalie Eilbert

Two Towns Over by Darren C. Demaree:

Two Towns Over – poems – Darren C. Demaree

Portrait of a Body in Wreckages by Meghan McClure:

Portrait of a Body in Wreckages – prose- Meghan McClure