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Poetry 88

Freesia McKee: Io’s Arms

July 15, 2013 by PBQ

That one bag night, he led me by my wrists As if I couldn’t walk

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Rachel Button: Long Distance I

July 15, 2013 by PBQ

Iowa: Beside cornfields, you bicycle, corduroy sweeping
spokes, tuffs of blond blowing,
glasses fogged by cold. You’re on your way

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James Ineich: A Recursion of Babies

July 11, 2013 by PBQ

First, a bed made of sleep. Then, rubied crowns stacked into kings or cracked into
jesters.

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Matthew Burgess: Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen

July 11, 2013 by PBQ

Poolside in a cruise
ship gymnasium
Jane’s scene opens

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Matthew Burgess: Nocturne

July 11, 2013 by PBQ

Maybe an orange
will help. Or a
Minneola tangelo.

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Matthew Burgess: Inner Meats

July 11, 2013 by PBQ

The way this sunrise pools thickly
onto brick tenements like mnemonic

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