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Contributors 86

Vievee Francis: Smoke

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

From a high window seat at the mall (your typical one) I note the range of mountains from which smoke emanates As if dozens of wood shacks were on fire which would mean Things would burn quickly and likely not be replaced, So my heart beats faster than it should, faster than it does Generally […]

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Vievee Francis: Moonshine

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

deceptive in its transparency, A mountain stream I could take a quick tube down And find myself whipped over, drowning, laughing.   Give me a whiskey in a dark booth, two shots in the hand across the table insisting I have more. I want more.   Make the booth leather, let the leather be torn, […]

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Vievee Francis: Wolf

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

cause I was a bad boy, so my daddy tol me the story ‘bout the wolf and lil  red rilin hood                                              ~HowlinWolf 1 It’s licking your door knob You know it’s there                (yesyoudo) Sound so subtle     if not for the scent you might pretend it’s the rustle of needles over theporch boards you might pretend […]

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Adam Falkner: Connor Everywhere But

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

after Jericho Brown Connor on the four train, sports page rolled           into a drumstick.  Connor stretched out shirtless on the front lawn, a football propped           behind his head.  Connor laughing against the red brick of a café, head thrown to the sky           like a sail snapped by the song of a quick wind.  Connor in […]

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C.M. Clark: Ismene Upstaged

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

Ismene of the bottlebrush tree, how long can an eyebrow grow untweezed? What if it’s left to curl and punk-jut   garden-random, scalp,   eardrum, cornea, liberated as milkweed? How will you ever learn the proper shape or coax of comb   to settle these tantrum hairs? At eleven, this is gnosis: the wafers of […]

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Diana Spechler: My Boyfriend, Jesus

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

Today is the feast day of two Catholic saints–Saint Cletus and Saint Marcellinus–so of course I’m reminiscing about a guy I dated who thought he was Jesus. I don’t mean he thought he was Jesus in the enlightened, we-are-all-one sense, in which case he would have thought he was also Buzz Aldrin, Bill Clinton, Hillary […]

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