mother’s peach
my stick
man’s
church bell
a ghost
has seen
a doll
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from ~ everything I touch remembers being my hand ~
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{WE BROUGHT HOME THE WRONG DYING BABY}
I ain’t been talked to in so long my wife’s kid thinks I have amnesia. ain’t been touched since Ohio’s ramshackle symbolism swallowed up some organ donor’s shadow. I went yesterday to a funeral for a woman’s ear. told people what I was wearing was a bedsheet belonged to the man in the moon. told myself I had this microscope could see a ghost and that I’ve only ever lost an empty house. I don’t know how old I am but I know what year I want it to be. before dying I saw it flash how I should have died. low creature. tugboat.
~~~
father an optometrist inspecting a replica of a totem pole and mother an eel collapsing at the thought of a play performed in a stone.
and there…
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in a nightmare
(praying over
his father
to highlight
the size
of the first
computer)
he disproves
god
(son) who breathes
for a snake
made of milk
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Robert Okaji
Kelli Allen
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Charlotte Hamrick
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Tim Miller
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after months
of correspondence
the babies
meet
not underwater, no
–
what a stone
is
is a stone
looking
for its mouth
–
call what slows
(place)
the heart of grief
is it written or is it said that the word tells you its language?
I built my house around a crying baby.
–
Q: sister spotlight has a brother
A: whose blood is a stop sign
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Jon Cone
Adam Hughes
Leanne Drapeau
Agnieszka Mauch
Amelia Kester
Brian Dawson
Ed Churchouse
Jill Chan
Arvind Joshi
Gayle McCreery
Robert Okaji
Kelli Allen
Daniel Paul Marshall
Charlotte Hamrick
Nicholas Christian
Tim Miller
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Tim Miller has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
it knows, the lesser
pig, not to eat
its own
blindness
and I quote
not father
but father’s
language
two ways
to lose
an eye
kingsoftrain 