March 2008
11 posts
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Chandler The man at Wal-Mart or Home Depot who arranges the lamp display. Thicket Two thighs: full frame. (Fig 1.1) Abscond A white duck’s behind lit by a late model truck’s headlights.
THIS POEM IS CALLED A DINNER It is a Tuesday, I feel _____________________ out of shape. Lately reading my own work holds me like a mirror holds a crow. (He has one leg pushed through a small hole in the wood sprung around a grub. He can’t return the foot. He pulls and pops the grub cleanly out of its grub-skin. ( The grub doesn’t notice much. It’s not colder because it...
THE TEMPLATE was always there, its existence seldom questioned or suspected. The poets of the future would avoid it, as we had. An imaginary railing disappeared into the forest. It was here that the old gang used to gather and swap stories. It was like the Amazon, but on a much smaller scale. Afterwards, when some of us swept out into the world and could make comparisons, the fuss seemed...
Elliptical Poets
“Elliptical Poets are always hinting, punning, or swerving away from a never-quite-unfolded backstory; they are easier to process in parts than in wholes. They believe provisionally in identities (in one or more “I” per poem), but they suspect the I’s they invoke: they admire disjunction and confrontation, but they know how [a] little can go a long way. Elliptics seek the authority of the...
Animal Collective - Brother Sport (from...
A literary journal for/by crippled gays (CripGays) : BENT