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The Kafka Sutra
Introductory In the beginning the Lord of Lords created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters laid down rules for the proper governance of the Dharma, Artha, and Kama. Those rules which treated of Dharma were disclosed by Swayambhu Manu; those governing Artha were compiled by Brihaspati; and […]
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On Joseph Massey’s Property Line
Joseph Massey’s Property Line (published by Jess Mynes’ Fewer & Further Press) begins & ends in the same paradoxical realization: that the experience of landscape, while so close & near, is only perceivable through the perception of its being perceived. Check part II of the final poem, “Greyhound, North Through Sonoma County:” Window night makes […]
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01.04.07
Such an update! Poems from Jon Curley, Norman Finkelstein, Devin Johnston, Burt Kimmelman, Kate Ledger, Joseph Massey, Jason Ian Moriber, Robert Murphy, Peter O’Leary, Michael Prasil, Pam Rehm, Mark Scroggins, Jason Stumpf, Stacy Szymaszek, & Shannon Tharp. Prose this round comes from Tyrone Williams & Amanda Nadelberg reviews Jen Tynes’ The End of Rude Handles. […]
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That Unbearable Distance, What We Have
We say get back in touch. Or stay in touch. You know how easy, even touching it is to say. As if the words confirmed, made certain, almost a believer of us. As if it were possible. And aren’t we touched? Knowing as we must the divide between us. The unbearable distance we close upon, […]
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The Play of Those Who Do not yet Know Games
I. Over Illinois’ midriff Canada geese in two magnetic lines draw together like teeth in a zipper. II. This red-tailed hawk slowly circling while her eyes swivel in panoramic blinks is evolution’s infant synchronicity confuses into a similitude with two hundred sandhill cranes arrowing slowly southward to winter grounds, riding along a mile high […]
