Contributed By: Pamela Miller
Make no little plans;
they have no magic to stir men’s blood
—Daniel Burnham
why address the world
through the wrong end of
a bullhorn?
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my poems don’t want
to heave one dew-soaked sigh
then die like mayflies
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want to watch poems
climb a half-inch Everest?
don’t call me
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make no teeny din—
let your poems rampage on stilts
like tornadoes
Return to table of contents for Issue 12 Winter 2018.
I’m masturbating across the hall from her dying. I’ve just finished giving her a bed bath. With that crazy half-detachment required when someone you love has stopped being that person. And has become instead this sickness. A moany…
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