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Poetry 100

Judith Roney: Relictual Taxon

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

In biogeography and paleontology                                    I am an exile a relict is a population                                                       patina of pinned or taxon of organisms                                                        landmines widespread or diverse                                                        scattered rampant in the past:                                                                         over decades A relictual population                                                        torn paper occurs in restricted areas, whose original range                                               and photos was far wider […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Judith Roney

Sadie Shorr-Parks: Lunacy

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

There are pen marks across the sky, black, from a laundry accident. I’m in my backyard hanging clothes on a line. No, I’m online, imagining hanging laundry. I can see a lilac dusk and a red rug. I can imagine my backyard full of baklava trees. I can predict a grey night sky, light pollution […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Sadie Shorr-Parks

James Pollock: Spectacles

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Arms folded on the desk. They’re skeptical, aloof. They have their own way of seeing things that is slightly off, not magical exactly, but somehow fascinating in the way they bend the world, if not to their will, at least away from the world’s will, if the world may be said to have one: true […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: James Pollock

James Pollock: Ceiling Fan

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Seen from below, a white five-petal flower; in fact, an artist whose medium is air, who combs it with these pale palette knives hour on hour, stirring the room, and taking care to keep this slow whirlpool in circulation. It gives you the chills, like an erotic spouse. If you increase the speed of its […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: James Pollock

Jory Mickelson: the sleeping field waited

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

for the sun’s increase, the grass to greet the birds, the birds circled their nests all night, stars lodged in their midway skies of grass & mud, the sun releasing dark from its pegs how to explain it? a clasping and unclasping of the day hook and unbutton, when the reed felt it circled itself […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Jory Mickelson

Vasiliki Katsarou: Waited

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

you waited with me as the house next door emptied of its guests, then its owners, fairy tale turned animal farm minted with ash and wishes you were my kitchen elf my second thought my echo’s echo cocked ear, cracked oasis your absorbent embered orbs that morning of the supermoon setting behind the barn you were […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Vasiliki Katsarou

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