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Poetry

David Landon: Apprenticing Your Ghost

October 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Some Friday night, it might be worth a try:  after a glass or two of French, a page   or more of some ambitious book,  let go into the couch. When you wake up,      lights on, at 3 am, not sure just where,  or who you are, assume you’ve died, a ghost,   for the first time, […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: David Landon

Cynthia Marie Hoffman: Living

October 2, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

The dead come to our dreams to comfort us. Your husband once stood at the edge of the hallway to confess his grief, his long body braced against the wall as if one more step into the living room would dispatch him spinning into the hollow. You took him into your arms. You and your […]

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Pat Hull: My body, the master 

September 27, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I can tell by the flow of my piss  How high I am  Blood sugar wise  A slight push with a weak arch  160-200 mg/dL range  A slow start with excessive end drips  200-275 mg/dL range  I’ve learned to love my body  An unconventional friendship  Two prisoners of war from different countries Adapting together daily […]

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Pat Hull

David Landon: Bach, Onomatopoeia, and the Wreck

September 19, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

For all we knew, it was a random chunk of interstellar rock, the rear-end crash that brought us to a halt. Dinner was out, of course, and the Bach too, I realized, feeling it in my neck, and standing there in the rain, examining my totaled car, the guilty driver soaked, in tears. The cops […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: David Landon

Shane Chergosky: Headwind

September 16, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

? When I think about the story she told me about that I don’t even wanna hurt the guy. I don’t know if I could meet that person and act normal. I remember I did that when I was about 20,21. I didn’t go into CVS with Xunaxi to What a bastard I was . […]

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Shane Chergosky

Alex Watson: Self portrait as an A train car

September 16, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Alex Watson

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