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Poetry 94

Edward O’Dwyer: The Death of Sean Bean

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

“Stop killing Sean Bean!!!” Youtube comment on Sean Bean death reel Today you’ll go to the cinema, leave at a loss to explain why you live in a world where, even in a movie, Sean Bean always dies. Like last time, all the heroic promise insinuated by a few generous, never overblown moments snuffed out […]

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Jen Karetnick: The Physics of Falling Mangoes

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

If a Haden mango, full with sun, and an ovoid Irwin, that ornament of dawn, drop at the same time from panicles equivalent in height, will they accelerate identically despite degrees of heft, of maturity, the knowledge of their own ripeness? Physics says yes, despite mass, even if it’s a late-season Beverly, still green, set […]

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Mara Jebsen: Come Undone

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

it is a night for nostalgia and hectic forecasts. i didn’t burn the dinner and the sun went down just the same, like an egg, like an egg poached in smoke and i never saw the news. the past, like a foreign city beckons in a mirror—high hope and bright light— and i wonder if […]

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Lynn Hoffman: from the barbershop, carmello

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

from the barbershop, carmello sees winter boots squeaking south on passyunk near broad sun-low, gold and cold. from the second chair, carmello hears a ring, a barber’s ‘howaya’ and something about shoveling the goddamn cold off the car’s bald spot from twenty-two years ago, carmello hears a crank and clank of metal slides sees the […]

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Rage Hezekiah: Off the Coast

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

I fished with my father, who fished with his, both of us learning to plunge hooks into writhing night crawlers, in hopes of luring trout and bass, scaled, silvery things for dinner. I never shied from eating their crisped skin, blackened by the grill. It all seemed natural, a slice of New England living. I’d […]

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Carlos Andrés Gómez: Morning, Rikers Island

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

Physics and light pierce the hollow stench of the forgotten gymnasium stripped naked of clocks. All the boys stopped. Offered their grief to each other like water, glancing out the only window they all shared. A single ray unfolds its warmth across the dusty belly of the thudded parquet; and here’s the miracle— another day […]

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