Issue 23 Poetry


From The Mythology We Have Now: 15
by Kathleen Jesme

“Click,” I said to the latch.
I knew where I was going
through the door and its apparatus.

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From The Mythology We Have Now: 16
by Kathleen Jesme

The house now emptied has drifted
once made of glass
with marbles for eyes                 now black shutters
nothing governs                      nothing tries to draw it

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Untitled
by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein

We like possibility – their hazy shape, a wrist in detail, and what we imagine.

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The Tuba and the Cherry Tree
by Alexander Chisum

o island of the third, fabular eyelid.

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Wind Turbine or Our Bodies Do That for Us
by Susan Grimm

Lollipop of the north coast. Freaky popsicle with a cast iron root. Cloud-colored. What’s the
flavor of gray.

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Untitled
by Francesco Grisanzio

That winter, the buffalo completely fell out of fashion.

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From SEQUOIA GRAFFITI: (11)
by Jennifer Pilch

Prior impression/actual impression
Galen Clark pronounced
hexagonal light beads/wasp hive

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