the plate
in god’s head
is a writer’s
dream. she crows
her three
words
for stoplight
as a doll
bites down
on a stick…
math is maybe not the best look for grief
and hunger
too academic
faith a shoelace in an unbroken egg
I stare at the letter x
excited by absence, I ask the poem to tell me
what it’s run
out of.
infants. forgeries. satanic lamps.
/ poetry
the redistribution
of poverty
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CONTRIBUTORS:
Jon Cone
and the heart-ache
that occupies the land is yours alone in hope. – {from} YOU ARE NOT LATE, IT IS ONLY THE PRELUDE THAT PLAYS
/
Adam Hughes
Tonight the fugitive gods limp
away, – {from} Kemper Street Hymns
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Leanne Drapeau
the body broken,
poured out. – {from} love has all its teeth intact
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Agnieszka Mauch
I can’t
move my arms enough to create a
notion of the sea – {from} FURTHER DISRUPTIONS
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Amelia Kester
I will find
the soft people – {from} BLACKBERRIES
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Brian Dawson
…sway against forgotten statues
until all that is left is the sibilance of old secrets. – {from} Nine
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Ed Churchouse
…mute blue comma,
w/ tiny, turned off
fullstop eyes,
you force
me caesura early
in the walking
home from work. – {from} Dead Bird
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Jill Chan
I haven’t thought of the day.
I am only in it. – {from} Dew Light
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REVIEWS:
of They Were Bears by Sarah Marcus:
of Set To Music A Wildfire by Ruth Awad:
of Calling A Wolf A Wolf by Kaveh Akbar:
of Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly by Darren C Demaree:
Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly – poems – Darren C Demaree
scar to my wound, this man believes in god. the last thing I learn is what I know. Franz Wright’s final book is called The Toy Throne. I understand this man when he says he was born with a disabled child. what is lightning
to a fish
as if waiting
for you
to hallucinate
it is there
the sea
–
eating secrets in a dream
is the owl
with hands
–
I think we buried
darkness
wrong
when cooking, mama says she is burning the uniform of the country I was dragged through. she knows better than to come from rib. cheek, maybe. or fishhook.
Jill Chan has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
the leg I called footprint. the bread that had skin.
cancer is a pop gun and when I say missing I mean her body was seen by the lonely / her body / was having children but only those / we’d seen / in photos / I mean bus
of a christian
swim team
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