He’s losing the lot all over again. New routines do not exist. It is mature. Everything chiseled into stone gets digitized, perhaps. Logarithms asexually inhabit the whole thing—nonplussed. The unnamable becomes ineffable as It’s damaged. We are the fabric, stitched together in storms to be torn asunder, too fast and weak for immortality. At one’s private end being embraces Its self, tumbling into the nakedness of a future dreamed. The babe is gone, but the dog worries the child into hiding somewhere in the street.
Further Reading
Abecedarian in Keith’s Unlikely C#m Key
by Karla Linn Merrifield
A flash is threat, fire is sweeping but, you, Keith, brother, a shot away can never fade away, sliding up my imagination, double-stringing me against the drone, each line of mine, a fret, a kiss away from fuck stains, mad bull fallin’ off the wagon. gritty, grinding gitty guitar, playing me dirty as a poet’s […]
Statues by Sergio Ballouk
(Translated from Portuguese by Julian Cola)
how many statues of bandits extermination commanders forest caps? how many? how many street names of wealth mongers squares and viaducts of those who despised the people? how many? how many rotten within, bearing an upright stench, as if standing drains guts and venom? how many? how many are still watching us waiting for their […]
The Squirrels and the Pecan Tree
by Elizabeth J. Wenger
We wanted the pecans. The squirrels also wanted the pecans. And therein, as they say, lay the problem. Let us start another way. Say the pecan tree is a symbol sprouting in the grassy lawn of my youth. A symbol of what? you ask. Let’s say a symbol of my family’s dominion. Our domain. Our […]
