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How Many Encounters

Mon, 04/20/2020 - 11:39am

Anna Zumbahlen

Through what process of comparison should my attention fall on this heat
             over milk

                        turning over velvet
The man in the next room has a cough in his ribcage

Insufficient that you should simply experience this exchange as time
Unable or unwilling to consider me head-on and also from the head down

Massachusetts Psalm

Sun, 04/19/2020 - 10:00am

Rob Shapiro

     Here we find nature to be the circumstance
     which dwarfs every other circumstance,
     and judges like a god all men that come to her.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve hunted your angels, tracked them
            back through thunderhead and snow,

We're Laughing but We've Just Seen a Darkness

Sat, 04/18/2020 - 9:48am

Christopher Salerno

              After growing up I grew an ear
              for that note of sadness hidden in laughter.

                            We assume all sorrow is redacted there.
                            We trust the mouth as a medium

              but often the louvers of anguish
       don’t make a good seal, causing the laughter

My Cup

Thu, 04/16/2020 - 1:58pm

O.G. Rose

You touch my lips more than my old wife,
but how could I love you? With a red-handle knife
from the shed my Honey painted teal,
should I slice open God,
the natural fabric felt as zephyrs and grass mites,
and kneeling next to my toolbox with the loose latch,
rewire the laws binding Venus and the Higgs boson,

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