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Issue 90

Warren Longmire: Ready Player One

October 28, 2014 by PBQ

How many cried when the 
avatar floats red across the monotone skyline? The mastered physics fluttering your 
fabric made of math? You might. When thumbstick millimeter becomes          a gait toward simulated sun. The moment tutorial is a muscle memory. When pausing could kill a world. When the orchestration echoes you and
          swells like a gland would. Congratulations! […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Issue 90, Poetry, Poetry 90 Tagged With: Contributors 90, Poetry, Poetry 90, Warren Longmire

Alyse Knorr: In which Our Friends hike the Long Trail

October 28, 2014 by PBQ

Jane’s pockets sag with smooth stones. She takes the incline easy, walks with eyes on the ground. Now and then, Then-Jane reaches back to hand her a piece of mottled slate. The green moss breathes and so does everything else. The Mariner stares directly into the sun and Jane feels suddenly proud—of the sun, of […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Issue 90, Poetry, Poetry 90 Tagged With: Alyse Knorr, Contributors 90, Poetry, Poetry 90

Alyse Knorr: In which Our Friends browse     the New York Public Library

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Mariner and Cowboy move through the catalogue, eyeing the stacks admiringly to please both Janes. They rub the Braille books to their faces, fill the Rose room’s tables with travel guides, National Geographics, comic books and maps. Jane offers them geology, biology, Qu’ran, and Homer, but they are too far into their ’88 Batman: A […]

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Alyse Knorr: Golden Record

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

World language greetings   This is a present, a token. We are attempting to survive. We hope. We face. We step out. We know full well. Let there be Hello! To everyone—Are you well? Regards. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, whoever you are. Hello from the children of planet Earth, from the Earthlings, from the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 90, Issue 90, Poetry, Poetry 90 Tagged With: Alyse Knorr, Contributors 90, Poetry, Poetry 90

M.P. Jones IV: The Bicycle

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Almost nothing separates this tiny boat from gathering silence and darkness pooling along the starless cow fields abandoned as the pine shack that fell in forgotten woods of youth no division between the deep taproots and the loam nothing to displace the topography of ruin save for my panting and the whirring of feet of […]

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Kimberly Horne: Shoulder

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

The shoulder is the hero of his body.  The shoulder lifts the arm as the arm lifts the rod and reel. The muscles housed in the shoulders propel the drift boat forward as the arms drag the oars backward.  To carry, to take up, prop up, to brace and bolster, to assume responsibility, to commit. […]

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