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Poetry 89

Erin Dorney: Song In Young Birds

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

They said try new things and I said okay, I’ll try this, the size of his waist fits and his hands press into my back, and I can’t think about anyone else. I typed and erased and typed and erased the shadow of a house on a house. In between fittings I took early lunches, […]

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Heather Dooley: Round 3: A Love Poem

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

Behind the butcher shop’s fourth wall, when you still don’t know and I still haven’t told you, everyone I confide in knows not only will I kiss you when you have been eating fish, but I will kiss you when you have been eating chicken. I will kiss you if you eat a burger from […]

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Pamela Davis: /Antidote

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

Using a number 2 pencil, circle the word in each line that does not belong   Barbie Dandelion Airbus Morgue Thong Shoe Ocean Wax Column Lamp Sitcom Taxes Boot Vow Crusade Jazz Masque Harpoon Gin Key School Military Apron Candle Drought Pistol Cello Brassiere Lawn Shroud Marble Spark

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Nikki Paley Cox: Recliners

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

Just the sight of them—overstuffed, adjustable, heated— she doesn’t want any here in the new townhome, where puppies follow her from room to room, where she tries to rest on the couch. They all remind her of Norman: green microfiber in the basement replaced the maroon upholstered; two in the bedroom swapped for oversized occasionals that […]

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John F. Buckley: On Kandinsky’s Open Green 1923

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

Absolute green is the most peaceful color there is: it does not move in any direction, has no overtones of joy or sorrow or passion, demands nothing, calls out to no one. -Vasily Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art   Beside the monochromatic road streaming past modernity’s big top, beneath the arcing of eyebrows and the […]

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Annah Browning: Taken

June 11, 2014 by PBQ

It would be good to be received as a hat, taken into a lap, never intended for showing. Cleverly under the table, I could wait for God to arrive, rumble over like a waitress, like a plane. It would be good if there was a disease I could catch, make me nicer. It would be […]

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