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October 2008

Emily Farranto, Untitled (Burning House), 2003
 
  • Sarah Lindsay
  • Adrian Blevins
  • Craig Arnold
  • John Repp
  • Eric Ekstrand
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Poem

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Tell the Bees

Tell the bees. They require news of the house;
they must know, lest they sicken
from the gap between their ignorance and our grief.
Speak in a whisper. Tie a black swatch
to a stick and attach the stick to their hive.
From the fortress...
Poem

poetry-magazine

How to Cook a Wolf

If your mother’s like mine wanting you honeyed and blithe   
                   you’ll get cooked by getting evicted   

since the mothers can teach with a dustpan the tons of modes of tossing.

And the fathers will lift your eyes too-early-too-open:   
                   the...
Poem

poetry-magazine

Uncouplings

There is no I in teamwork
but there is a two maker

there is no I in together
but there is a got three
a get to her

the I in relationship
is the heart I slip on...
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