Tag: 42.2

YEAR OF THE POSSUM

S.Marie Clay   Your stature suggests the sleep of a museum, fifty coffins piled into a single room; waxen figures with mouths furiously cut open, hair from possum’s shield, eyes sliced from...

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The Rogue Translation



Karen An-hwei Lee   Bird is niao in the original Mandarin.   Un oiseau avec la bicyclette jaune — The word oiseau is French for bird. Translation:  A bird with a yellow bicycle....

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Metro Tepito

Stephen Brown To view a .PDF version of this poem, click here.  Stephen Brown was born in 1976.  He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Athabasca University in Western Canada....

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Glaciology

Dana Diehl   Three years after the pilot’s wife died, her sister flew across the Atlantic Ocean to visit America for the first time. The sister’s name was Anna. Anna, the wild, redheaded,...

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Soraya

Anis Shivani   1. I believe in licking riot grrrl power beads. I believe in ring-around-a-rosy to move the Mensheviks’ frozen mercury. I believe, Soraya, in Roman candles whose eidetic...

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Shooting Script

Karyna McGlynn   I like to yank necklaces from women’s throats. I am unconcerned whether I break the clasps or the women. A spray of pearls in the sunlight. No comment. I smoke in the same...

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Omphal*OS

Joe Pan Shangri La La La Lollipop   O Williamsburg! Burg of adventure & bowling! Of vendors too stoned/whatever to serve! O industrial hamlet of innocuous dissonance, the hipster elite,...

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Calle Regina

Stephen Brown To view a .PDF version of this poem, click here.  Stephen Brown was born in 1976.  He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Athabasca University in Western Canada....

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SHIKELLAMY HILL

G.C. Waldrep   if not, less expert:     elm-riven: light floods iteration’s domicile:   how would you describe:  as paraph,    signature: strapped to winter’s gurney, its compound...

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LINDEN HALL

G.C. Waldrep   cathode lift:   flock or arrow’s fletch:   matutinal: in gothic sprawl: ablation murmurs: notched, the heart opposes:   image: unction:   Zeno’s proctored ogive:  ...

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