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Boo-boo
A porous membrane, swelling around to welcome the intrusive object and sketch in chalk basics of the mechanisms of healing; pursues a love affair with the dressing, grasps and clings, osmotic freeway swell salving dirt into the weeping wound’s lens; the species fumbles midway through a bad luck run no longer […]
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From hyper-glossia
observant of landscape and entitled to alter it educated guess what’s buried in the trenches I’ll mandate its rise natural as everything I associate myself with slow momentum desert weather deck and bulk merchandise adapt my speech to the ration of words per day wardrobe of […]
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From The Trick Cyclist
Shadow Verbs Tea on trays, torches en fuego on the patio, women, faint outlines on the wall. Night nigh and one-by-one the stars, the itchy rasp of crickets in the grass. With each sip, three lines on his forehead, thoughts: Oh, the pleasantries of peasants, bare tree-tops in the fall. Everyone a stranger. The last […]
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Pam Rehm, contributor
Suggested Reading Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire (Keith Waldrop, trans.) Resurrection of the Body, by Caroline Walker Bynum The Bible in English, by David Daniell Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art & Science, by Lorraine Daston (ed.) Wild Health, by Cindy Engel Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, by Ellen […]
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Six Little Rhymes
Gone a long time You among many You among the leaves In the north in the west Exiled in the south Exiled in the east There shall the crow fly Seeking his rest * * * Up the stone steps To the fallen tree Around the locked house Never let me […]
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Three Poems from Areas of Fog
Wind’s form fleshed in this web’s gesture outside the closed window. * Dangled above the traffic’s rasp: a contrail a crow a nail gun’s echo. * Light a spider scales one branch to the next tilts in time with the wind. Wind revising shadow stretched on a flat patch of tan […]
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Waiting Tables
"In the weeds" is how you say when you’re double, triple-sat when the four-top at thirty-two is waiting to see the dessert tray and the deuce at twenty-seven asks again for that bottle of wine. Later, this frenzy will feel like a rush, like the throttle of a motorboat, its hum in your throat. Even […]
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Teaching the Architectonics of the Metaphysical Poets
In his survey of the rise of the American university and its relationship to the simultaneous development of literary criticism and theory, Professing Literature, Gerald Graff recounts an incident involving literary critic I. A. Richards’ attempt to "demonstrate" to an English literature class the pedagogical power of "practical criticism," his applied variation on New Criticism. […]
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Peter O’Leary, contributor
Suggested Reading The Fire: Collected Essays, by Robin Blaser The Holy Forest, by Robin Blaser God and the Welfare State, by Lew Daly A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin The Road, by Cormac McCarthy Riding Westward, by Carl Phillips Suggested Listening The Rosary Sonatas, H.I.F. Biber (Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr perf.) Etudes for […]