Chad Frame – Drawing Up the Papers
Drawing Up the Papers I’m standing outside in a three-piece suit on my lunch break from work between two cars, holding replacement copies of papers giving trumped-up titles—Executor of the Estate. Power of Attorney. In the strong wind, everything is flapping. Now I am the Fate who measures the thread, I think. Now I am […]
Jane Ormerod – carnival
carnival look what we have here and watch because of light floating wood a carcass this wooden boozer or director of river mud river meat it’s ours in an inkling we insist on trying the thrill of departing train finger on wet plaster it’s time our eyes keys and across the hall a private bathroom […]
Glenna Luschei – Prison Count
Prison Count I was only your teacher of verse but you chose me to walk you down that vale. I prayed to be worthy. You couched your medals and keys into the paper, all you had. You left me your white sage for bathing. I beseeched the shell in the sweat lodge to anneal your […]
Luke Johnson – Bless the Mouth
Bless the Mouth Bless the mouth that saunters, silk of spit. Bless the hand that holds the head & bobs it back & forth. Bless the build the bridge the white noise whittled from the body’s blazed tremolo. Bless the gaze, slap of skin, spilled wine. Bless the wine, the bite, the tang, sticky pleather. […]
Stefan Lovasik – The Foundry, 1960
The Foundry, 1960 for Bruce Weigl, in memory of Albert Weigl 1923-2018 & Lawrence Lovasik 1920-1995 We run through slag and ash – Play soldier, good at dying, Then walk in stiff green water, Near funnels of smoke Where whistles ring for home And another stack of fives and quarters. We watch the burial of […]
