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Dawn, New & Improved
Turn the sun rising into a new genre, dubbed for want of better words solar apotheosis. Slug down the coin slot, night down for blurred metal racket, cat calling for her husbands. Reach across her back for the door lock, gear box frozen and matted. As authoritative as he may appear, suddenly the sky cracks […]
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“In the dream he saw them walking across the bridge …”
In the dream he saw them walking across the bridge, carrying all their worldly belongings. Dogs and children surrounded them. In the dream he understood that it was meant to bring laughter, lighten the burden, call forth echoes of momentous times, gently mocked. But the uncertainty of the hour, the uncertainty of the light, left […]
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Ready for Sunset
Mars is not at perihelion. Mars is not near you. Mars is arrayed on a skyline as though waiting for dark. Mars is up there, neither accepting nor barring. For all we know, Mars has its visor shut. Mars — so many for Mars, all we could ask for. Mars, Mars, somewhere floating over mountaintops. […]
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Drew Kunz, contributor
Suggested Reading Seasons, by Etel Adnan Step, by George Albon Dust, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenk Regional Noir, by Joel Felix Noise/Music: A History, by Paul Hegarty Animate, Inanimate Aims, by Brenda Iijima The Meaning of Photography, ed.by Robin Kelsey & Blake Stimson Æthel, by Donato Mancini Sightings: Selected Works, by Shin Yu Pai Unknowne Land, by […]
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from The Pied Machine
1 The eye’s never-ending question of what is form colors the coming sense so autumn comes a tale of ice a lake hanging in the sky The infant continues to begin. We speak the syllable of two bodies in their talk within the habits of night air. 2 The phrase forms four seasons. Not as […]
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Slant (for Joe Massey)
wind wrung leaves un- weighted, unravel … day light clears heather frayed fast along track through spoil … in honeysuckle light cat piss woven slantly … black bird thrown back a- gainst cold guttering sky … snatch of sun be- neath buzzard hung light … wind cracking black branches back, rough gusts, troughs, slack- ing […]