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SIGHING DAMNS THE WORLD by Jerrod Bohn

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Jerrod Bohn

In tree blown slippers’ nightingale
gauze she remembers awake
a squawk         murder of angels
zither   less crave of field

crows               Grafts feathers fallen (one two
other) some sewn into her hair
sleeves woven limb to laurel
leaves plunking gut strings above

her head          Want:  haloes of glass
beads                 the kind drunk girls
noosen their necks       but when asked
she’ll flash freck (cuneiform

breasts)                           siphon funnel nettles
to starling        Breath:  not the lack
lusts her of carousel (repeat
calliope stem hush)    full

seraphim full fury                      Plays lyre
true she can dance       in corn
gown revival tents clear
water (whiskey girls no shame

all bracken       reed)   Recall:
covey of maudlin merry mag
pie        harpy’s sick chords tame
boring               drill-like            her marigolds.

 

Return to table of contents for Issue 1 Spring 2009

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: April 1, 2009

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12.13 by Martial
(Translated from Latin by David Macey)

Among the rich, anger’s no rarity: hatred comes cheaper than charity.     Genus, Aucte, lucri divites habent iram: odisse quam donare vilius constat.     Return to table of contents for Issue 12 Winter 2018.

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Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009

Issue 1 Spring 2009 V. JOSHUA ADAMS is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and editor of Chicago Review. JOE AMATO‘s recent books include Pain Plus Thyme (Factory School 2008) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Iowa 2006). His memoir, Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City, is forthcoming later […]

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