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Poetry 75

Gerald Zipper: Pride

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

I lapped up good words like a cat laps milk my mother showed my first hodge-podge poem a pudding to patriotism sugar in my veins cooking up images of pluck and daring I ran off to the army slicked my creases bloused my pants preened like a khaki cat but ears were fractured and sobs […]

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Matthew Zapruder: You Have Astounding Cosmic News

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

Dear sociologists, here at dazed lute press we’ve been conducting field experiments into your private thoughts. One faction wonders whether or not you wonder must one imagine oneself beneath the desk holding particular crayons or is it best to stare at as many crudely drawn bus stops apples and clarinets as can across the land […]

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Susan B.A. Somers-Willett: Thaw and the Beginning     of Everything

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

The monk crosses the garden’s grassy islands of ice balancing a vaporing cup of tea on a bone saucer. He is singing a matin in the plot. He fingers the toughened peas in his pocket. Their thin brittle coats diminish, evaporating in his hands like onion skin or flakes of golden paper. They have been […]

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Afaa M. Weaver: Lucille Clifton, Legends

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

for Fred and Rita at AWP Baltimore Conference, 2003 I The hotel room needs more space, the heart another heart, so the pieces of the wall come apart, panel by panel, the workers walking them down into a mysterious hole. Rita and I wonder where do walls go. They walk them in the drone way […]

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Peter Stillman: Making Use of Odds and Ends

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

More often and for periods as long as… oh, the life of an eraser, say, a bar of hotel soap, I’ve used up nights in search of why I use up nights this way— that is, compiling reasons for not sneaking out on Winthrop’s pond and bouncing on the rotten ice til I fall through. […]

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John Parras: New Milford

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

When I go to borrow the electric hand- saw, my uncertain neighbor alludes to Hamlet’s friend Horatio —something about sparrows falling and his wife steps out as the metal screen door flashes white and it’s spring, I’ve just got my hair cut by a fleet-fingered barber smelling of lavender and everyone in Jersey is busy […]

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