fall 2018
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Return to Home PagePoetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
For Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
Phantom Courses Steven Ray Smith
Tulips for Barbara Ann E. Michael
forbidden music we should probably Conor Barnes
Ode to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
If You See Something, Say Something James Cagney
Victims of Captology Kyla Jamieson
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun Ken Cathers: the sum Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit Stephen Bett
Friendly Nuts Carl Joesf Homolka
Under the Arbor Heather Bourbeau
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
Re: Wards of the Crown Jeremy Luke Hill
The First Treatise The Second Treatise The Third Treatise Yara Farran
Marketplace Road Trip, 1985 Christopher Evans
Phantom
Yesterday I flailed
beyond proxemics,
me and my big mass of gaudy.
Watching you step back showed me
how brightly I thought I shined.
Today my arm throbs
with the pulse of nakedness.
I hunt for my catchpenny
pound, my free hand groping
for the preciousness that had only ever been
a pennyweight.
What happened was I let myself
dawdle on a towel for a simple hour,
laugh at nothing, feel you
joggling the bangle
and my palm and fingers with it.
The insouciant sand filches everything.
So there
it went,
and with it
yesterday’s
emolument.
If you find it
don’t tell me.
Don’t give it back.