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Poetry 86

Karen Sisk: For My Mother

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

Albatross mothers fly over water for hard glints, food signals to feed chicks flopping fuzzy, thin-skinned on lava-black beaches. They grab bottle caps, lighter fragments, fork and comb tines to regurgitate into gaping beaks, fill their chick’s loose coin purse bellies that starve and burst. Eyes shrivel to peppercorns. Bodies, bone and feather shadows, cracked […]

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Elias Simpson: The swam limps across the courtyard

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

Why does the uncle with the stroke             attempt complete sentences when butter will do? Elegance, even its loss, its drunkenness or disability, conveys the nature of a mind— that sureness of pleasure in itself.

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Taije Silverman: Lingua

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

In what shapes do words stay while they wait to be spoken? Buonanotte absorbs into puddles on roadsides, immune to goodnight’s grip on grandfather clocks.  Se fossi in te climbs through clean metal chain link while If I were you hangs on screens on back doors. In Italian the question of what does it mean […]

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Taije Silverman: Itinerant

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

                                    Thus spoke Proteus, and I was broken hearted as I heard him.                                                                                            –The Odyssey   Between the airport and this latest of my half-inhabited cities, a dead stretch of smokestacks burns tanks full of fuel, dredged up out of disappeared sea beds. A bald man as dark as the dark in a closet sells […]

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Marina Read Weiss: Birdwatching for the Intuitive

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

The bird—      not five feet away—   regards                        us(, not without                        fidgeting).                Its settling                        is unsettling:                                               tangerine belly, gray wings                                                            furled. A precise peak                                        over which it knows the world.                                                            What is it?                                                            when did I cease to know?                                                            litanies of ignorance accelerate                                                                                    with the early summer heat                                                                                                like our hands dampening                                                                                    and I let […]

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Jessy Randall & Daniel M. Shapiro: Interruptions

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

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