self-portrait self-hugging elegance being a favourite escape elegance itself always wanting it felt true and that’s elegance, grace like a calm wind I am happy to know such elegance and scared, maybe, to show all my elegance how time didn’t halt it. over a season having passed and I’m ripe here still with elegance I’m […]
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“National Poetry Month” #21: Shannon Maguire
from “Pearl/Buttons” near the hour of dawn a stranger unfamiliar flowers she might have been named Sylvia or Buttons or Applied Computing Astrolabe and near to her the split of daisy bombs 53 reviews of recent accidents and a Book of Hours of detentions at the crossings a small log with names encumbering just beyond the air-stream planes landing amid various species of […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #20: David B. Goldstein
WHAT LUCY USED TO BE What Lucy used to be, I now am. Or rather, I accommodate her foibles; they live on in me now that she is gone. For instance: the thin switch of the horse’s tail. The barn before sunrise, cold as oats. Trepidation in a nearby thrush. We believe that the dust […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #19: Colin Fulton
Friendship You can say it. Our friendship concluded conceptually over the course of several uneventful weeks, and our poems lent recognition to and provided impetus for many world movements. Long before my receptive friend and I could formulate a response, and considering that we had once again failed to meet quorum (despite how very pleasant […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #18: Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts
from The Obvious Flap I am not a slack bard, I don’t want a chorus. Here under the bird world, there is movement between h and m, between humans and l, like the grind of continents as it begins to rain. I rush from one drop to the next, holding my breath in song. Thus […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #17: Kim Minkus
3 nonets from “24 Nonets After Reading Edward Byrne’s Sonnets: Louise Labé” 7 Lying spirit tightly strung you are most dangerous with all the points of your desire I come gently into hazard pure terrible burning pain half hard – the other cruel a thousand parts to cry over afternoons of grief cruel and therefore […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #16: David Dowker & Christine Stewart
a breach (amphibrach) object ache* each abject stratification collapses in the culmination which brings us to the apex of the inverse aversion, spiritualized app- liances hap- hazardly rap- tured, tri- geminal peripherals vibrate or gesticulate, a squip quinty or cryogene plasmate, cryptic inarticulate acetate say golgi embodiment raised inchoate waferthin instrumentality be that as it […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #15: Chantal Neveu, translation by Angela Carr
from Coït 1 I come in from where I leave I come in you point to where you want me to enter I come in when I come out you know where I was where I am no longer in a way you see after the gestures your nerves one by one your genes neurons […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #14: Stephen Cain
ABC: AN AMAZING ALPHABET BOOK! A is for Althusser B is for Barthes C is for Capital D for Descartes E is for Eliot’s mermaid that sings F’s for Foucault who wrote The Order of Things G is for Gramsci who in prison still wrote a book H is for Hegel who’s well worth a […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #13: Christine McNair
A FOOL’S GRACE bed me with lavender tattoo some cuneiform abjad into cardiac vessels hot cut radiance blister packed, a two-for-one offer of woad bled over bit lip, wrinkled stems pollinate broken umbrellas, debride torn silk back into lovers’ spit, pacify capillaries but just let go: release my feckless heart full punch to the ticker […]
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