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L. J. Sysko

L. J. Sysko

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

L.J. Sysko’s work has appeared in The Missouri Review’s “Poem a Week,” Ploughshares, Best New Poets, Limp Wrist, Radar, and her poetry chapbook BATTLEDORE, among others. A 2022 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Thomas Lux Scholar, Sysko has been honored with Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowships as well as […]

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L. J. Sysko: Flying Fish

March 8, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

   

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L. J. Sysko: Ball Game

March 8, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I like to think of the geologic timeline of planet Earth as a Cracker Jack box layered like an elaborate parfait where each era’s biggest jokester buried a time capsule and if we dig ages later we might find, say, a Lego, fallen in beside peanuts, heavier than popcorn, settled toward the middle above arrowheads […]

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L. J. Sysko: Relational Identity

March 8, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

The car salesman tells me about safety, quipping, After all, we’re just bags of water, and I have to steady myself because he got me. That’s the line. That’s what’ll do it— glib characterization of mortality makes me hot, and even though he’s not attractive, to my eye, I’m imagining reclining with him beneath the […]

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