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Poetry 92

Jiwon Choi: I Pay My Book Fine

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

I have kept you Ko Un for days longer than the iron bound librarian allows   you are a poet of poets because magpies sleep on your shoulders through winter and even a millet shortage uprising cannot awaken them.   You write with the ink of your veins about travelers you’ve met on old village […]

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Alyssa Carver: Chemistry

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

It doesn’t matter what they call it. The first image was of something like squid in a cloudy aquarium, ink swirling, a sinking, murky poison. But the brain is nothing like a fish tank; I know this. It is made up of wrinkles, rolled tight like new pantyhose. Layered like an onion’s pearly sheath; pink […]

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Keverlee Burchett: Goodwill Inventory

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

This time when you come you’re not a thing lost, not broken or recently fixed—   you don’t break or fix me. Now you’re harmless.   Now, you’re a glove-boxed ice scraper in south Georgia,   a post hole digger, birdseed scattered   to a city of squirrels. Now, when you appear out of nowhere […]

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Shevaun Brannigan: When the World Ends

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

there won’t be newspapers with letters to the editor objecting to how the city council handled the crisis. No TVs to turn on. The hand-cranked radios too hot to handle, but then we won’t have hands. No psychologists to diagnose Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, no couches to lie back on as a glistening orb of light. […]

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Lisa Andrews: Mother Love Song

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

Watch me, I am the living snake that sheds its skin. Watch this emerald sheath turn to grass. I go on forever. I am the green flash, quick as summer lightening. I am that fast. I am the cobra. Kiss me and your village will be saved. I am the boa constrictor that hangs in […]

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