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Nick Visconti: Unmake these things 

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

The sand before me like water, fluid and holy  under the cratered crown nearly  half-awake, circling    as I draw the one way I know—stick    figures in a backdrop scenery, thick-  headed and content, wheeling    psalms of birds, wide-sloping M’s  grouped in permanent murmur. I don’t bother    with the sun’s face, bare […]

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Nick Visconti: Burial 

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

It is love,  not grief, which inters  the deceased  in a hill made of clay.                              Sod embraces  crossed arms, legs, eyes shut  looking forever                                at nothing  […]

Filed Under: Issue 104, Poetry, Poetry 104 Tagged With: Nick Visconti

David Rosenheim: Bangkok 

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

a tree grows through the open roof of the café  ferns and orchids drape low and heavy with bloom  over conversations closely held    by pairs that make no notice of  the surround sound: squid frying in back  a saw cutting metal down the road    their consonant chatter in  interleaving languages whose meaning  you […]

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Danielle Roberts: Reassurance

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

1— My cat startles & I tell her nothing bad is happening, but we both know that’s a lie on a large enough scale.   She hears the neighbors’ doors slam, the child in the ceiling crying like an injured mouse. She knows footfalls   on the landing lead to the uninvited lead to us […]

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Danielle Roberts: Extracting memories

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Extracting memories[1]   Speak to me in layered tongues of bitten snow, slow molars carved with frost collected in the valleys between your teeth. The scientist bores a core— plucks the long memory from each glacier—this meter holds your first bicycle ride, this   a bridal veil of volcanic ash from Pompeii, six cylinders of […]

Filed Under: Issue 104, Poetry, Poetry 104 Tagged With: Danielle Roberts

Danielle Roberts: How can I leave this behind?

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

after Jeanann Verlee’s Helen Considers Leaving Troy   after a floral gin cocktail               Do I want to live and die my whole life here—               buried in county lines—or is it time               to stretch the map? There’s more               to plan than simply running away.   while holding my niece               Picking up […]

Filed Under: Issue 104, Poetry, Poetry 104 Tagged With: Danielle Roberts

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